------- Comment #4 from dannysmith at users dot sourceforge dot net 2008-02-14 01:43 ------- Actually, I see this as unfortunate choice of name for the undocumented __alloca label rather than as a serious bug.
__alloca is an internal symbol that should have been named _alloca_probe for consistency with MSVCT. Certainly it is not a regression. It has been that way since 1996. The mingw header malloc.h does this to get a MSVCRT-consistent alloca: #ifdef __GNUC__ #define _alloca(x) __builtin_alloca((x)) #endif -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35124
