Ian Collins wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > Roland Mainz wrote: [snip] > > Isn't that what alloca() is for? (Ignoring the simple fact that > > alloca() > > is actually horribly broken since it never tells you if it's failed, just > > lets you corrupt your stack when you ask for too much memory.) > > > Just like C99 VLAs!
Umpf... C99 VLAs are neither horrible nor broken. They're a valid language construct and highly usefull if properly used (noone is suggesting to allocate 300GB that way). ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
