On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 17:26 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > What advantage is there in using alloca?
On UNIX it's useful because there's no realistic constant value MAXPATHLEN that is guaranteed to be large enough to hold a full pathname; different filesystems on UNIX can have different maximum path lengths so the only way to know is to detect the value at runtime through pathconf() or similar. There are _minimum_ path lengths that are required to be supported by every POSIX-conforming filesystem, but no maximum (that I'm aware of). So, alloca() is nice because it's dynamic. This doesn't seem to be as much of an issue on Windows where the max path length appears to be much more strictly defined. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.mad-scientist.us "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
