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Re: alloca() in kernel code



joerg%bec.de@localhost (Joerg Sonnenberger) writes:

>> Even if it comes from the bootloader, why would you want to use alloca()?

>Because as Emmanuel wrote initially, dynamic allocations might not be
>possible yet.

More so than dynamic stack expansion.

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