alloca wars

[Scott Wilson]

Oh gosh, I'm sorry I ever brought up alloca.  The original post
was in response to the portability issue, so let me see if we
agree on this:

1.)  Code that, in general, makes use of features that are less available
     than others is, in general, less portable.

2.)  Alloca is less available than malloc/free.

3.)  Therefore, all other things equal, code that uses alloca is less
     portable than code that doesn't.

Does this make sense?

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