From a38c9c7aeebe61197c48371bb5085e45727bb7e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jules <jules@juce.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 14:58:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Made TextDiff use less stack space

---
 modules/juce_core/text/juce_TextDiff.cpp | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/modules/juce_core/text/juce_TextDiff.cpp b/modules/juce_core/text/juce_TextDiff.cpp
index 4b07015b2b..a8bff4e7ee 100644
--- a/modules/juce_core/text/juce_TextDiff.cpp
+++ b/modules/juce_core/text/juce_TextDiff.cpp
@@ -116,7 +116,21 @@ struct TextDiffHelpers
                                      b, lenB, indexInB);
 
         const size_t scratchSpace = sizeof (int) * (2 + 2 * (size_t) lenB);
-        int* const lines = (int*) alloca (scratchSpace);
+
+        if (scratchSpace < 4096)
+        {
+            int* scratch = (int*) alloca (scratchSpace);
+            return findLongestCommonSubstring (a, lenA, indexInA, b, lenB, indexInB, scratchSpace, scratch);
+        }
+
+        HeapBlock<int> scratch (scratchSpace);
+        return findLongestCommonSubstring (a, lenA, indexInA, b, lenB, indexInB, scratchSpace, scratch);
+    }
+
+    static int findLongestCommonSubstring (String::CharPointerType a, const int lenA, int& indexInA,
+                                           String::CharPointerType b, const int lenB, int& indexInB,
+                                           const size_t scratchSpace, int* const lines) noexcept
+    {
         zeromem (lines, scratchSpace);
 
         int* l0 = lines;