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Re: alloca is bad?
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 05:39:29AM -0500, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 21:20:32 -0500
>> From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
>>
>> I was surprised by this assertion and so I thought I'd ask for a
>> consensus here. Should the use of alloca be deprecated in gdb?
>
>In my experience, there's nothing wrong with alloca as long as it is
>used for allocating small buffers. The only consideration is that not
>every platform supports alloca.
But, since alloca is already entrenched in gdb and available in liberty
I don't think this is an issue, is it?
cgf