alloca is bad?

[Christopher G. Faylor]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 10:52:18AM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
>>I don't think that the fact that you can cut yourself with a knife
>>means that you eliminate all sharp objects from your premises.
>
>I wish you folks would be more straightforward.  Now I have to go
>re-purchase all that cutlery.

It's not just cutlery.  For a while, I actually had eliminated all electrical
appliances after I saw the consequences of a lightening strike to a tree.

Eventually, I decided that this was foolish, so I'm now allowing my family
to use flashlights and transistor radios.

cgf