The 2015-01-02, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >So what do you guys think? VLA's, are they good, bad, evil, stupid, all > >of the above? > > alloca() re-invented. > > alloca(3) was considered slightly unsafe, because use if it was rare. Your > mail strikes so widely, feel free to modify a whole system to use this instead > of malloc. Then argue your point, and lose...
Thanks, more or less sums it up. I'll stick to using malloc and friends; it's got a reliable idiom for checking errors, and I have a lot of appreciation for the rigor that's gone into the implementation. -- Ted Bullock
