Using alloca in function parameters buggy or works ???

Thu Sep 16 16:53:00 GMT 2004

"Dave Korn" <dk@artimi.com> writes:

>   And how about calling alloca in a varargs function that has an eliminated
> frame pointer and incoming args space?  That could be a good way to expose
> latent bugs...... <g>

Use of alloca should force a frame pointer.  I don't think that GCC got
that ever wrong.

Andreas.

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