bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
A person using alloca is expecting stack allocation, and
that it goes away after the function exits. Switching arbitrarily to the
gc will not be detected and may hide a programming error (asking for a
gigantic piece of memory is not anticipated for alloca, and could be
caused by an overflow or logic error in calculating its size).
There's another solution, that I'd like to see more often used in Phobos: you
can add another function to Phobos, let's call it salloca (safe alloca) that
does what Denis Koroskin asks for (it's a very simple function).
Can't be written. Try it.
Andrei
