Re: alloca again

[Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>]

Am 03.10.2022 um 14:31 schrieb nia:
> This is the current alloca definition in the libc headers:
>
> #if defined(_NETBSD_SOURCE)
> #if defined(alloca) && (alloca == __builtin_alloca) && \

According to my knowledge of the C preprocessor, the condition 'alloca
== __builtin_alloca' always evaluates to '0 == 0', assuming that if
'alloca' and '__builtin_alloca' are actually defined, they expand to
some other identifier. As C90 6.8.1 and C99 6.10.1p4 both say, "all
remaining identifiers are replaced with the pp-number 0."

Did this condition make any sense at any time in the last 40 years? If
not, why has this piece of clearly broken code survived since 1993-03-25?

Roland