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Re: Using alloca in function parameters buggy or works ???
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:58:11 +0200
- Subject: Re: Using alloca in function parameters buggy or works ???
- References: <200409161516.i8GFGOkV010784@caip.rutgers.edu>
"Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu> writes:
> 2. Does my example above trigger the bug?
I think the problem was that alloca'ing the memory could get mixed
together with parameter passing (when they are passed on stack). So it
probably depends on the order the parameters are set up and whether the
alloca'd memory is the first parameter pushed on stack.
Andreas.
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