On Monday 12 February 2001 15:33, Patrik Stridvall wrote:
So perhaps we should debate whether we should use alloca or not.
It seems this has been decided. I haven't examined or used alloca in years, so its possible that my personal objections don't apply in todays implementations ( a quick test shows gcc on i386 _doesn't_ use a function call these days, for example, so thats no longer a valid reason). So rather than saying its evil, I'll tone down to it simply being unesessary, and continue to avoid it for (no doubt dubious) reasons of 'style'.
Cheers, Jon