Re: What's wrong with alloca() in gcc????

mo@gizmo.bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell)
Tue, 31 Dec 91 11:52:03 GMT

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From: mo@gizmo.bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell)
Keywords: storage
Organization: Center for Chaotic Repeatabilty
References: 91-12-075 91-12-089
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 91 11:52:03 GMT

At least at one time, the dynamic array stuff in gcc was very broken
in that if you have


int foo[z];


sizeof(foo) returned sizeof(int). This is so wrong as to be beyond
belief. Yes, it is hard to make it work right, but then, that's why
one should think hard about putting in such "features".


-Mike O'Dell
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