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[Lwc-list] alloca?


From: Brian Olsen
Subject: [Lwc-list] alloca?
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 15:57:24 -0600
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Hello -

I've been trying to port lwc over to work with tcc and basically i'm getting killed by tcc's lack of alloca.

Since I'm lazy I'll take the first option out and basically copy this from the man page

ALLOCA(3)
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BUGS
       The alloca function is machine and compiler dependent. Its
       use is discouraged.

       On many systems alloca cannot be used inside the  list  of
       arguments  of  a  function  call,  because the stack space
       reserved by alloca would appear on the stack in the middle
       of the space for the function arguments.
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Would it hurt anyone to just pretty much axe alloca calls? The 'c' mentality has always been to pair up your mallocs and frees and perhaps the alloca calls are just away to be lazy.

Any suggestions?





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