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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: alloca() portability
Keywords: portability, alloca
Message-ID: <14421@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 11 Nov 90 04:00:45 GMT
References: <9122@ncar.ucar.edu> <27537@mimsy.umd.edu> <1990Nov09.233527.7489@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1990Nov09.233527.7489@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>The argument that alloca isn't a requirement because it's little-used
>(and it's little-used because its not required) doesn't help much either.

This must be a matter of attitude or something of the sort.
In literally hundreds of thousands of lines of C applications code,
I have NEVER needed alloca(), and I certainly do worry about such things
as artificial limits on the sizes of strings that can be handled.