Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Peter Memishian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > ... and these apply to alloca(3C) too. Despite the ominous text in the
> > > manpage, it works flawlessly on Solaris (dunno about other Unices,
> > > though). Granted, C99 VLAs are slicker, but alloca() gets the job done
> > > :-)
> >
> > alloca() has been around sice at least 25 years.
> >
> > 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.
>
> Erm... AFAIK it was invented by C++ (together with relaxed variable
> declaration rules).
Could you proove that?
Jörg
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