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Re: alloca is bad?
On Nov 12, 1:39pm, Chris Faylor wrote:
> Since at least four GDB maintainers have expressed their desire to
> use alloca, is that an adequate quorom? What's the procedure here? Are
> we eventually going to come to a decision and document it? Or, are we
> going to keep wrangling until someone gets tired?
I'm tired and I haven't even been wrangling. :-)
Others of you have argued long and eloquently on the matter, so
I won't bother... I will "vote" however:
1) I agree with those who think that debugging heap related corruption
is frequently more difficult that debugging stack related corruption.
2) I think the use of alloca() should be allowed so long as the space
to be allocated does not exceed some relatively small, but reasonable
bound.
Kevin