alloca (was Alloca for Turbo C)

[Chris Torek]

In article <51339 at cornell.UUCP> ressler at cs.cornell.edu (Gene Ressler) writes:
>I'm asking those who are really familiar with the TC's code generator 
>if they know of other dangers e.g. functions with no locals,
>tail calls, nested blocks with locals, and so on. ...

This sort of thing is exactly why (choose all that apply):

    (a) alloca should never be used;
    (b) alloca must be built into the compiler;
    (c) using alloca makes code less portable.

(Note that different people will choose different sets.)
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