>Variable length arrays are AFAIK a GCCism that has been invented to >avoid the problems caused the need for a platform/compiler specific >alloca.h. It later made it into the C99 standard.
Which is strange because if the compiler can do variable sized arrays it can presumably do alloca() just as well. (Of course, the Sun compiler implements alloca() itself; on other systems it was a function which did something with the stack) Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
