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Re: [PATCH] manual: Update alloca and variable length array documentation


Thanks, this looks good, with one quibble:
+Compared to @code{malloc}, variable length arrays share the same
+advantages and disadvantages as @code{alloca}.  In particular, there is
+no error checking (and security vulnerabilities can result from large
+allocation requests), and some @nongnusystems{} do not support variable
+length arrays because they only support earlier versions of ISO C which
+do not include variable length arrays.

The last 2 lines are obsolete. Although C99 required VLAs, a standard C11 implementation that defines __STDC_NO_VLA__ need not support VLAs. I suggest removing " because they only support earlier versions of ISO C which do not include variable length arrays".


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