alloca() portability

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1990Nov09.233527.7489 at chinet.chi.il.us> les at chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>The argument that alloca isn't a requirement because it's little-used
>(and it's little-used because its not required) doesn't help much either.

This must be a matter of attitude or something of the sort.
In literally hundreds of thousands of lines of C applications code,
I have NEVER needed alloca(), and I certainly do worry about such things
as artificial limits on the sizes of strings that can be handled.