[Bug middle-end/17696] [cygwin] builtin alloca SIGSEGV with size too large

Mon Sep 27 16:52:00 GMT 2004

------- Additional Comments From bangerth at dealii dot org  2004-09-27 16:52 -------
The man page of alloca says: 
    RETURN VALUE 
       The alloca function returns a pointer to the beginning  of 
       the allocated space.  If the allocation causes stack overÂ 
       flow, program behaviour is undefined. 

I guess you have to live with the fact that allocating large chunks of 
memory on the stack isn't such a great idea. 

W. 

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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17696