alloca() portability

[Henry Spencer]

In article <14517 at megatest.UUCP> djones at megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>> A proper fix is
>> impossible without language changes.
>
>Isn't the change simply to legitimize alloca(), letting the compiler
>in on the gag?  That's what Sun did.

Please *read* the article you are responding to!  Memory allocation is only
one small fragment of the general problem of cleanup-on-return, and often not
the most important one.  I was addressing the general problem.
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