>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).
I'm sure "Just like VLAs" refers to the "won't tell if it fails" not to horrible and broken; I don't see alloca() being much different than VLAs, to be honest; it's just syntactic sugar. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
