Reduce the stack footprint of pixman's function general_composite_rect() which allocates a large buffer `stack_scanline_buffer`. Make it `static __thread` instead. --- a/pixman/pixman-general.c 2015-12-27 21:37:37.000000000 +0100 +++ b/pixman/pixman-general.c 2016-05-05 12:24:47.346661080 +0200 @@ -128,8 +128,8 @@ pixman_composite_info_t *info) { PIXMAN_COMPOSITE_ARGS (info); - uint8_t stack_scanline_buffer[3 * SCANLINE_BUFFER_LENGTH]; - uint8_t *scanline_buffer = (uint8_t *) stack_scanline_buffer; + static __thread uint8_t static_scanline_buffer[3 * SCANLINE_BUFFER_LENGTH]; + uint8_t *scanline_buffer = (uint8_t *) static_scanline_buffer; uint8_t *src_buffer, *mask_buffer, *dest_buffer; pixman_iter_t src_iter, mask_iter, dest_iter; pixman_combine_32_func_t compose; @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ if (width <= 0 || _pixman_multiply_overflows_int (width, Bpp * 3)) return; - if (width * Bpp * 3 > sizeof (stack_scanline_buffer) - 15 * 3) + if (width * Bpp * 3 > sizeof (static_scanline_buffer) - 15 * 3) { scanline_buffer = pixman_malloc_ab_plus_c (width, Bpp * 3, 15 * 3); @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ if (dest_iter.fini) dest_iter.fini (&dest_iter); - if (scanline_buffer != (uint8_t *) stack_scanline_buffer) + if (scanline_buffer != (uint8_t *) static_scanline_buffer) free (scanline_buffer); }