BUG: alternatives

[Charles Wilson]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> I have mixed feelings about alloca, personally.  I use it all of the time but
> it is always with some trepidation because, AFAIK, the failure condition for
> alloca is a SEGV.  OTOH, it is very convenient.
> 
> In this case, however, I think you really want to use realloc.  You could even
> rely on the fact that realloc(NULL, n) is equivalent to malloc(n).

Okay, revised patch attached if anybody cares to comment.  But more 
importantly, a test release (1.3.20a-2) should be up on the mirrors soon.

--
Chuck

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