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From: Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (Marty)
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Subject: evilness of alloca!
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Date: 22 Apr 89 16:12:48 GMT
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Is alloca really evil?

The concept appeals to me -- a simple way to allocate space off the stack
in the local stackframe which goes away when the function returns.

The lack of portability and the seemingly pathological problems bother me
(i.e. the calls to functions  with alloca(n) as arguments).

I'm debating whether to start using alloca in some of my applications.

marty
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