On July 23, 2004 11:42 am, Andi Gutmans wrote: > Why do we need one extra byte?
We do not. > Anyway, the question is if we should return to alloca() or not. I am > slightly in favor but don't feel very strongly about it. Perhaps we could try a combination of the two, to ensure that no script is terminated due to a PHP crash if allocating on the stack fails. By default we can use alloca() if that fails to allocate the memory, we could use emalloc() and set a flag free code indicating which free function should be used. Ilia -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php