🚀 go-pugleaf

gyro@kestrel.edu (Scott Layson Burson) writes:
>It struck me today that it would be awfully nice to have a high level,
>type-safe interface to `alloca' (which allocates a block of memory of
>specified size in the caller's stack frame).

>A syntax is easily enough come by: `new auto <type>'.

>This probably won't fly, since `alloca' is not in the ANSI library and
>may be difficult to write for some implementations ...

In theory, there's no need for alloca.  All the machinery needed to
implement running-of-destructors-for-local-objects can be used to
simulate alloca on top of malloc and free.  It's not as efficient, but
it isn't impossible.  Compilers for systems w/o alloca will just need
to work a little harder.

Sigh.  Another feature.  Has anyone considered removing features from
the language instead of adding them?

David Chase
Sun