[vorbis-dev] alloca() problem with CodeWarrior

[Chris Hanson]

At 4:52 PM -0800 3/14/02, Brian Hook wrote:
>  > I vote against.  People having trouble with alloca() can
>>  always use one of the portable C implementations of it (like
>>  the one in libiberty, for example).
>
>Why not include a portable implementation with Ogg Vorbis?  That would
>seem to solve all the problems.

I'll go a step further and suggest sticking to core ANSI C when 
you're trying to write a portable library in C.  That means using 
malloc() and free() -- or better, callbacks supplied by the user of 
the library -- rather than the nonstandard alloca() for memory 
management.

   -- Chris


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