> lines 517-518, elsewhere: What happens if alloca fails (is such a thing
> possible)?
It is no more or less possible than a stack allocation failing -- e.g., if
we're going to worry that:
char buf[2048];
... might "fail" (in some equally undefined way), then we need to worry
about alloca(). But I think worrying about such things for any reasonable
buffer size (e.g., <8K) is needless.
> The man page indicates that its behavior is undefined if there is not
> enough space available to service the request, and also includes a
> warning that its use is strongly discouraged.
That warning -- at least as it pertains to Solaris -- is ancient and
probably should've been removed a decade ago.
--
meem
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