Is replacing alloca(3) where possible a good thing to do?

[Allan Jude]

On 2016-09-14 10:48, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> FWIW,
> 
> After some discussion with one of the principal Illumos developers it is
> clear that they won't accept replacing alloca(3) for the sake of
> "portability". You also can't always replace alloca(3) with VLAs anyways.
> 
> Pedro.
> 
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The one time I tried to use it, it went very badly, as it returns a
pointer, but the actual amount of memory was less than I had requested,
and so it smashed everything.

-- 
Allan Jude