svn commit: r265860 - head/usr.bin/printf

[Pedro F. Giffuni]

Author: pfg
Date: Sat May 10 22:27:01 2014
New Revision: 265860
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/265860

Log:
  prinf: replace use of alloca with variable length array.
  
  Use of alloca(3) is discouraged in FreeBSD. Using a VLA
  is simple and should be more portable.
  
  Requested by:	jilles

Modified:
  head/usr.bin/printf/printf.c

Modified: head/usr.bin/printf/printf.c
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.bin/printf/printf.c	Sat May 10 21:53:07 2014	(r265859)
+++ head/usr.bin/printf/printf.c	Sat May 10 22:27:01 2014	(r265860)
@@ -215,13 +215,11 @@ printf_doformat(char *fmt, int *rval)
 	static const char skip1[] = "#'-+ 0";
 	int fieldwidth, haveprec, havewidth, mod_ldbl, precision;
 	char convch, nextch;
-	char *start;
+	char start[strlen(fmt) + 1];
 	char **fargv;
 	char *dptr;
 	int l;
 
-	start = alloca(strlen(fmt) + 1);
-
 	dptr = start;
 	*dptr++ = '%';
 	*dptr = 0;