Re: Legal alloca?

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From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 14:29

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In article <4l5ckd$1t4@solutions.solon.com>, huober_j@spica.rz.uni-ulm.de (Joachim Huober) writes:

|> The man pages of Linux and BSD4.3 indicate that alloca can fail returning
|> a NULL pointer.

But in practice, with GCC's __builtin_alloca, it doesn't ever.
-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de              completely different"

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