Reiner Weikusat: > Peter Olson <pe...@peabo.com> writes: > > >> On January 23, 2016 at 1:36 PM Rainer Weikusat > >> <rainerweiku...@virginmedia.com> wrote: > >> > >> Peter Olson <pe...@peabo.com> writes: > >> 5>> On January 22, 2016 at 4:34 PM Rainer Weikusat > >> <rainerweiku...@virginmedia.com> wrote: > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> >> p = buf = alloca(total); > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> > the failure mode of alloca is SIGSEGV or some other malfunction and > >> > there is no way to test for it
You should be able to cache a SIGSEGV if you are useing sigaltstack(). Never tested it though and don't know it it is useful at all. ... > In this respect, there's no difference between alloca and static stack > allocations. ... Soo, the above is nearly the same as char buf[total]; p = buf; Why then use alloca()? Regards, /Karl Hammar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aspö Data Lilla Aspö 148 S-742 94 Östhammar Sweden +46 173 140 57 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
