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Re: alloca is bad?


> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:16:51 -0500
> From: Chris Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
> >
> >In my experience, there's nothing wrong with alloca as long as it is
> >used for allocating small buffers.  The only consideration is that not
> >every platform supports alloca.
> 
> But, since alloca is already entrenched in gdb and available in liberty
> I don't think this is an issue, is it?

I don't think this should be an issue.

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