Using alloca in function parameters buggy or works ???

[Jeffrey A Law]

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 09:58, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> "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.
It also probably depends on the types of the other parameters
(consider parameters which must be constructed on the stack).

jeff