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Re: alloca is bad?
Kevin Buettner wrote:
>
> 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. :-)
See:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2000-11/msg00085.html
as they say the process has already started. (The alloca() cat is
already out of the bag so a yes/no vote is pretty useless :-).
> 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.
Covered.
Andrew