Should this work?

[Joerg Pommnitz]

I get a SEGV with the following program under i586-pc-linux-gnu:

#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>

class xx {
public:
        char *xy (char *c = alloca (18)) {
                strcpy (c, "Hello World!");
                return c;
        }
};

int
main ()
{
        xx x;
        cout << x.xy () << endl;
}  

The idea is to use alloca to allocate memory from the caller´s
stack and to be able to do something like:

printf ("%s %s", x.xy (), x.xy ());

without having to clean up.

Regards
	Joerg