<<On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:37:03 -0700, Tim Kientzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Sounds like alloca() should simply be stricken from libc > on all architectures. Yes. (For values of `all' being `i386'.) > Might also be a good idea to begin removing uses of it. Not necessarily. There's nothing wrong, intrinsically, with using alloca(), although much but not all of the purpose has been subsumed by variable-length arrays which I think are in C99. One merely has to be aware that it is not part of Standard C (any more than a thousand other interfaces in FreeBSD) which must be implemented in the compiler; therefore, one cannot expect programs which expect alloca(3) to be available and have the standard semantics to work when compiled with a strictly conforming compiler. Most compilers do implement alloca(). -GAWollman _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
