Jim Meyering wrote: > > 2. because the alloca.c code assumes that there is a "stack > > direction". This is not the case any more with GCC's new > > "split stacks" <http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SplitStacks>. > > Is #2 really relevant? > alloca.c is compiled with gcc only for 1.x versions.
You're right, my mistake. When split stacks are in use, the burden of implementing alloca() is on GCC's side. Bruno
