[vorbis-dev] alloca() problem with CodeWarrior

[Phil Burk]

THANK YOU Ben!
I applied the 5.3 patch for CodeWarrior 5.0 on Mac OS 9 and it fixed the
problem with alloca() corrupting the stack pointer.

The alloca() function is used throughout the Vorbis code base. In my Google
searches, I saw many cases where alloca() caused problems on many machines.
It is often implemented incorrectly by compilers. Plus it requires lots of
stack space. There was a discussion a while back about removing alloca()
calls from Ogg Vorbis. I would like to add one vote for that mod.

    http://www.google.com/search?q=alloca+crash

Phil Burk

>>The problem I am having now is that the CodeWarrior 5.0 compiler has a bug
>>with alloca().
>>
Ben Stanley wrote:
>Did you apply the CW 5.3 patch? It should be freely downloadable from
>www.metrowerks.com. I don't know if it fixes this bug, but I use it for
>all my work. (I don't tend to use alloca().)

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