[tremor] Re: [PATCH] eliminate alloca() usage

Segher Boessenkool segher at koffie.nl
Thu Oct 17 15:14:15 PDT 2002



> This will only work with GCC, since it is a GCC specific extension. It
> is definitely not ANSI or ISO C.

This is both valid ANSI C and ISO C, albeit only in the 1999 versions
of these standards.  It's 2002 now, so most compilers should have caught
up now[*].

[*] Too bad they didn't.

So yes, this is a portability no-no for now.

<p>Cheers,

Segher

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