On Sunday, 3 February 2013 at 13:22:53 UTC, bearophile wrote:
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.
Maybe. I barely have ever used alloca myself, but glancing over the VLA's it seems iffy. If there's just one it's easy to implement, however if there's several then the data would point to a slice on the stack. I can see how it works in my head, but with dynamic arrays, malloc & scope you can get a similar affect. Hmmm... Maybe a possible use for a template instead?
