On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 22:06:31 UTC, Era Scarecrow wrote:
Most likely alloca would have to be built into the compiler. Here's a crash course in how the stack memory management works. sp=stack pointer, bp=base pointer (more relevant pre 386).
An apology in advance: I have an early start tomorrow, and a busy few days coming up, so I probably won't be able to follow up on this discussion until the weekend.
In the meantime, thanks for the food for thought. I'll try to be in touch about this topic soon :-)
