scope of malloc

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <2182 at kraftbus.opal.cs.tu-berlin.de> net at tubopal.UUCP (Oliver Laumann) writes:
>Yes, I know that alloca() may not work with certain existing C
>compilers, but why, for instance, can't vendors with such types of
>compilers add an option to support alloca()

It's not simply a compiler issue; many interesting computer achitectures
are such that alloca() cannot be reasonably implemented, particularly if
you take into account interrupts (signals).

>You also keep mentioning the argument that alloca() is not needed.  If
>this is true, then how do you make sure that in the following function, ...

I don't write spaghetti code.