Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: alloca() portability
Message-ID: <1990Nov24.035618.11358@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Nov17.221822.25202@zoo.toronto.edu> <14517@megatest.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 90 03:56:18 GMT

In article <14517@megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>> A proper fix is
>> impossible without language changes.
>
>Isn't the change simply to legitimize alloca(), letting the compiler
>in on the gag?  That's what Sun did.

Please *read* the article you are responding to!  Memory allocation is only
one small fragment of the general problem of cleanup-on-return, and often not
the most important one.  I was addressing the general problem.
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"I'm not sure it's possible            | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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