>> > > char *alloca ();
>> Is this the right return type though? Wouldn't it be void*?
> I have no idea. You will see that I didn't touch that line in the
> patch, precisely because I don't know what is correct and for which
> platform(s).
In GNU/Linux's gcc/glibc, it is indeed void*, but it's not in POSIX,
so I doubt it is at all standardised. I would not be at all surprised
if something with pre-ANSI heritage used char* for its return type.
Note, also, that (in gcc/glibc) it's not specified to return NULL on
error, in case you expected that - I've seen some code that tries
testing for NULL return, but its behaviour on insufficient memory is
(specified as) undefined; in practice that means crash. (Try asking
glibc's sscanf() to read an integral value from a string consisting of
a few megabytes of digits.)
Eddy.
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