Using alloca (or stmt exprs) as a function call argument is bad?

Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu
Sun Sep 23 07:55:00 GMT 2001


 > From: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
 > 
 > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:31:06PM -0400, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
 > > And its presumably because alloca is diddling with
 > > the stack at the same time function parameters are being pushed there?
 > 
 > Yes.
 > r~

So have you any thoughts on how best to have gcc warn the user that
they've just done something dangerous?

E.g. gcc/c-typeck.c:error_init() line 4594...

I'd like to automate finding these cases.

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