SQLite

** NULL, it means that memory space has already been allocated and that
** this routine should not allocate any new memory.  When pBuf is not
** NULL simply return pBuf.  Only allocate new memory space when pBuf
** is NULL.
**
** nByte is the number of bytes of space needed.
**
** *ppFrom points to available space and pEnd points to the end of the
** available space.  When space is allocated, *ppFrom is advanced past
** the end of the allocated space.
**
** *pnByte is a counter of the number of bytes of space that have failed
** to allocate.  If there is insufficient space in *ppFrom to satisfy the
** request, then increment *pnByte by the amount of the request.
*/
static void *allocSpace(
  void *pBuf,          /* Where return pointer will be stored */

  /* Allocate space for memory registers, SQL variables, VDBE cursors and 
  ** an array to marshal SQL function arguments in. This is only done the
  ** first time this function is called for a given VDBE, not when it is
  ** being called from sqlite3_reset() to reset the virtual machine.
  */
  if( nVar>=0 && ALWAYS(db->mallocFailed==0) ){
    u8 *zCsr = (u8 *)&p->aOp[p->nOp];       /* Memory avaliable for alloation */
    u8 *zEnd = (u8 *)&p->aOp[p->nOpAlloc];  /* First byte past available mem */
    int nByte;                              /* How much extra memory needed */

    resolveP2Values(p, &nArg);
    p->usesStmtJournal = (u8)usesStmtJournal;
    if( isExplain && nMem<10 ){
      nMem = 10;
    }
    memset(zCsr, 0, zEnd-zCsr);
    zCsr += (zCsr - (u8*)0)&7;
    assert( EIGHT_BYTE_ALIGNMENT(zCsr) );

    /* Memory for registers, parameters, cursor, etc, is allocated in two
    ** passes.  On the first pass, we try to reuse unused space at the 
    ** end of the opcode array.  If we are unable to satisfy all memory
    ** requirements by reusing the opcode array tail, then the second
    ** pass will fill in the rest using a fresh allocation.  
    **
    ** This two-pass approach that reuses as much memory as possible from
    ** the leftover space at the end of the opcode array can significantly
    ** reduce the amount of memory held by a prepared statement.
    */
    do {
      nByte = 0;
      p->aMem = allocSpace(p->aMem, nMem*sizeof(Mem), &zCsr, zEnd, &nByte);
      p->aVar = allocSpace(p->aVar, nVar*sizeof(Mem), &zCsr, zEnd, &nByte);
      p->apArg = allocSpace(p->apArg, nArg*sizeof(Mem*), &zCsr, zEnd, &nByte);
      p->azVar = allocSpace(p->azVar, nVar*sizeof(char*), &zCsr, zEnd, &nByte);
      p->apCsr = allocSpace(p->apCsr, nCursor*sizeof(VdbeCursor*),