[RFA] alloca coding standard

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 16:24:49 -0500
> From: Nick Duffek <nsd@redhat.com>
> 
> On 13-Nov-2000, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> 
> >I think we ought to just pick a number (in bytes) and not mention
> >pages at all.  
> 
> I agree.  I'll rework the patch to specify 512 bytes or whatever number
> the group thinks is reasonable.

I think 512 bytes is too restricting. 1K or even 2K should not harm
anything.  (My criterion is the maximum size of an automatic array
that I would use without too much hesitation.)