Hi, Quoting Agustina Arzille (2016-03-15 14:11:27) > Hello, everyone. > > I was browsing some gnumach source files, and noticed some dangerous use > of the gcc builtin 'alloca'. In the file kern/bootstrap.c, lines 212 and > 228, we have the following statement: > > memcpy (alloca (len), ...)
Good catch. However, alloca is dangerous even if used correctly, and is best be avoided. Would you be so kind to prepare a patch to that end? Thanks, Justus