[tremor] [PATCH] eliminate alloca() usage

[Segher Boessenkool]

Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> OK, I felt I could be kind and try helping some people out there so removed
> all occurrences of alloca() in the source.  No malloc()/free() were added.

Not okay.  Variable length arrays are a C99 feature.

> Anybody with another compiler than GCC please confirm if the attached
> patch works for you or not.

And all (almost) C99 compatible compilers support alloca(), too.

> If your compiler doesn't support variable-length automatic arrays nor a
> proper alloca() implementation then please do yourself a favor by trashing
> it and install GCC instead.

GCC doesn't generate very fast code on most targets.

<p>Segher

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