alloca is bad?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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.