Remove GENERAL_MALLOC internal macro

(code refactoring)

* alloc.c: Update comment (about GC_allocobj usage).
* include/private/gc_priv.h (GENERAL_MALLOC): Remove.
* include/private/gc_priv.h (GENERAL_MALLOC_IOP): Move to typd_mlc.c.
* malloc.c (GC_malloc_kind_global): Expand GENERAL_MALLOC macro; copy
the comment from gc_priv.h.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/malloc.c b/malloc.c
index cd9468a7..e1594e83 100644
--- a/malloc.c
+++ b/malloc.c
@@ -325,7 +325,10 @@ GC_API GC_ATTR_MALLOC void * GC_CALL GC_malloc_kind_global(size_t lb, int k)
         }
         UNLOCK();
     }
-    return GENERAL_MALLOC(lb, k);
+
+    /* We make the GC_clear_stack() call a tail one, hoping to get more */
+    /* of the stack.                                                    */
+    return GC_clear_stack(GC_generic_malloc(lb, k));
 }
 
 #if defined(THREADS) && !defined(THREAD_LOCAL_ALLOC)