[Bug-gnulib] anyone using bumpalloc module?

[Paul Eggert]

The bumpalloc module has some real problems.  It doesn't handle
integer overflow correctly when the buffers get huge.  It has O(N**2)
behavior when buffers get huge, where it should have at worst O(N log
N).

Jim and I recently revamped coreutils so that it no longer uses
bumpalloc.  I don't know of any other package that uses bumpalloc so I
propose that it be removed from gnulib.  There is a need for a module
like bumpalloc, but it'd be easier to write one from scratch.