From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Cc: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>, Nick Duffek <nsd@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: alloca is bad?
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 06:21:00 -0000
Message-id: <npem0j52m8.fsf@zwingli.cygnus.com>
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X-SW-Source: 2000-11/msg00064.html

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.