[vorbis-dev] BeOS on PPC compile, thread question.

[Ralph Giles]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Chris Hanson wrote:

> >Replacing alloca() with malloc()/free() is certainly wrong.
> >*Possibly* replacing it with _vorbis_block_alloc may be correct as it
> >comes out of a libvorbis maintained pool.
> 
> But using alloca in a cross-platform library (which should be as 
> ANSI-compliant as possible) is also wrong.

FWIW, one of the oldest autoconf macros is AC_FUNC_ALLOCA so it's easy to
choose between monty's suggestions at build time. I assume this is a
well-studied issue.

 -r

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