Hello Vincent,
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2008-01-25 12:03:15 +0100, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
So, I'm not quite clear. Are you happy with the new man page
description of alloca()?
I don't like very much the Its use is discouraged. without any
information since in practice
1. it seems to be
Hi Michael,
On 2008-01-30 11:07:32 +0100, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
Good enough now?
Yes, thanks.
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Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2008-01-24 17:02:31 +0100, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
Is alloca() used and tested on each of those platforms?
That's very probable. The only way to avoid alloca() is to build GMP
with --disable-alloca and to build MPFR using the GMP build directory
(i.e. with
On 2008-01-25 12:03:15 +0100, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
So, I'm not quite clear. Are you happy with the new man page
description of alloca()?
I don't like very much the Its use is discouraged. without any
information since in practice
1. it seems to be very well supported,
2. it can improve
tags 461100 fixed-upstream
thanks
(changes in upstream 2.77)
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
Package: manpages-dev
Version: 2.67-1
Severity: normal
The alloca(3) man page says:
BUGS
The alloca() function is machine and compiler dependent.
On many systems its implementation is
On 2008-01-24 16:36:29 +0100, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
While I don't think we can take one developer's experience as gospel
(though it would be useful to know the range of platforms that
Torbjorn has tested), [...]
That's quite a lot, but I don't know exactly. FYI, here are the
machines known to
On Jan 24, 2008 4:57 PM, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2008-01-24 16:36:29 +0100, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
While I don't think we can take one developer's experience as gospel
(though it would be useful to know the range of platforms that
Torbjorn has tested), [...]
That's
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On 2008-01-24 17:02:31 +0100, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
Is alloca() used and tested on each of those platforms?
That's very probable. The only way to avoid alloca() is to build GMP
with --disable-alloca and to build MPFR using the GMP build directory
(i.e. with --with-gmp-build). MPFR uses alloca()
Package: manpages-dev
Version: 2.67-1
Severity: normal
The alloca(3) man page says:
BUGS
The alloca() function is machine and compiler dependent.
On many systems its implementation is buggy. Its use is
discouraged.
The first sentence doesn't give more information than
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