alloca is bad?

[Nick Duffek]

On 13-Nov-2000, Michael Meissner wrote:

>That won't work, since alloca is a builtin provided by GCC.

That can be disabled by compiling with -fno-builtin.

>If GCC is detected as the compiler at configuration time, then alloca is
>not even built into libiberty.

True, but that's easy to circumvent.

Using -lefence or other debugging mallocs to debug alloca overruns isn't
as easy as a simple relink, but it doesn't seem fundamentally difficult.

Nick