Re: [Mingw-users] union cast errors?

[SONE T. <ts...@cm...>]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 05:28:38PM -0800, Paul Garceau wrote:
> On 7 Dec 2000, at 22:23, the Illustrious Niels Diepeveen wrote:
> > Has anyone ever used _alloca()?
> > I think it may be broken.
> 	Try using malloc() instead.  Afaik, _alloca() is a Unix call, and
> is not part of the mingw runtime headers...nor is allocate().

alloca() is a built-in function in both GCC and MSVC.
(no underscore in GCC)
I've been using it without a problem.
GCC itself uses it also.

Changing alloca() to malloc() generally means massive change in source code,
since it implies addition of explicit calls to free().

There is a C implementation of alloca() in libiberty, though.
-- 
Takeshi