> Le 29 sept. 2018 à 08:23, Paul Eggert <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
> Akim Demaille wrote:
>> why didn’t you use alloca?
>
> It's common that alloca does not check for stack overflow, so alloca (N) is
> unwise if N is unbounded. I did consider using alloca if N is small, but even
> then it’s a win to use malloc in the typical case where uniqstr_concat
> generates a new string, because in that case malloc needs to be called anyway
> and using alloca would mean an unnecessary copy.
Thanks!
>> Joel’s trick for UNIQSTR_CONCAT was amazing :)
>
> I was hoping you'd say that about *my* trick for UNIQSTR_CONCAT. Oh well :-)
:) :) :)
