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Re: alloca is bad?
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 09:21:51AM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
>I think alloca is terribly useful. I have every intention of using it
>the next time it's appropriate. We should not reject new uses of
>alloca.
>
>Of course, strictly typed mechanisms, like GCC's dynamically sized
>arrays, are preferable, but not widely available.
I agree with this. I use dynamically sized arrays in cygwin because it
is guaranteed to be compiled by gcc.
Are dynamically sized arrays part of C99 by any chance?
cgf