Re: wine/include/msvcrt malloc.h

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Log message:
>    Fixed alloca handling the way mingw does it (reported by Vincent
>    Béron).
> #ifndef USE_MSVCRT_PREFIX
> -static inline void* alloca(MSVCRT(size_t) i) { return _alloca(i); }
> +# ifdef __GNUC__
> +# define _alloca(x) __builtin_alloca((x))
> +# define alloca(x) __builtin_alloca((x))
> +# endif
>  #endif /* USE_MSVCRT_PREFIX */

If we know it's GNUC, isn't it better to use the alias feature,
so we don't run into problems with the macros, like we use to?

wine/include/msvcrt malloc.h

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Dimitrie O. Paun"  writes:
> If we know it's GNUC, isn't it better to use the alias feature,
> so we don't run into problems with the macros, like we use to?

__builtin_alloca is not a normal function, it's a compiler builtin, so
it's not possible to make an alias to it.