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In article <4h2thl$1io@solutions.solon.com>,
David Thomas Richard Given <dtrg@st-andrews.ac.uk> wrote:

[snip]

>	/* Free storage (I should have used alloca()) */

No you shouldn't have.

>From a (1990) man page:

:WARNINGS
:     alloca() is machine-, compiler-, and most  of  all,  system-
:     dependent.    Its   use   is   strongly   discouraged.   See
:     getrlimit(2), sigvec(2), sigstack(2), csh(1), and ld(1).

I think there's something in the comp.lang.c FAQ about this, too,
but I don't have a copy of it handy.

[I agree.  alloca is deranged, undesireable, and useful only when there's
 a problem with the design of the code to begin with.  The sole excuse
 for it would go away if the committee introduced variable-sized arrays
 and added C++ style mixing of declarations with code. -mod]

Cheers,
Stan.
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Stan Ryckman  (stanr@tiac.net) (new e-mail address)