[Mingw-users] Re: alloca support

[Benjamin R. <b.r...@tu...>]

Hi Christoph,


Christoph Dalitz writes:
> The problem with nonstandard headers like malloc.h is that they are
> not present on all systems or may be in different locations.

Isn't alloca() a non-standard function?  Unless I am missing something
here, it belongs in a non-standard header.

> E.g. on MacOS X malloc.h needs to be included with #include
> <malloc/malloc.h>.

That assumes that MS's non-standard <malloc.h> has any usefull
relation to Apple's non-standard <malloc/malloc.h>.  I wouldn't bet on
that.


benny