Era Scarecrow:
On Sunday, 3 February 2013 at 09:11:59 UTC, Namespace wrote:Sure, but alloca has the same ugly interface as malloc. :/You mean that you have to specify how many raw bytes you want, then cast it to what you need? I never thought alloca or malloc were that ugly.
The interface of alloca() is bug-prone. And it's not handy if you want to create a 2D or nD array on the stack :-) In bugzilla there is a preliminary request for better and less bug-prone VLAs for D.
Bye, bearophile
