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Re: Further observations regarding alloca on i586-pc-linux-gnu
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Further observations regarding alloca on i586-pc-linux-gnu
- From: Martin von Loewis <martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 23:30:46 +0200
- CC: rth at cygnus dot com, carlo at runaway dot xs4all dot nl, pommnitz at darmstadt dot gmd dot de, egcs at cygnus dot com
- References: <10773.903933161@hurl.cygnus.com>
> I don't think alloca's behavior is defined by GCC. You'll probably
> need to look at an ANSI or POSIX standard.
Looking at Single Unix as found at
http://www.UNIX-systems.org/apis/0.r.html
I cannot see a definition of alloca. I don't think it is covered by
any international or industry standard. It seems the HP definition is
pretty good: It's system dependant (sp?), so all systems that provide
it should document the implementation and possible limitations.
Martin