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Re: alloca again



Am Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 12:06:10PM +0000 schrieb nia:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2022 at 12:21:08AM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 03, 2022 at 12:31:42PM +0000, nia wrote:
> > > I'd argue that providing alloca(3) as anything except a compiler
> > > builtin is a bug, and that kind of thing should never be used.
> > 
> > Well, if you are in strict C/C++ standard mode, alloca should not exist
> > because it is not part of the standard. If you are in GNU-extended mode,
> > the builtin logic for it will trigger. Not leaking extra macros has its
> > advantage.
> 
> Would you agree that we shouldn't have a definition for alloca in our
> headers since it should be handled by the compiler, then?

What uwe said. I think we should just restrict alloca's prototype to
!__STRICT_ANSI__ (at least for the !PCC case).

Joerg


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