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On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:00:07AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: >A simple test will show you: > >main() >{ > char *b = alloca(500); > return b[3]; >} > >Compile with gcc, and you'll see that alloca is implemented directly, >without function calls. > >__builtin_alloca is the internal way gcc implements it; either works >just fine but __builtin_alloca is more immune to being #define'd to >something else. It's not specific to Cygwin. We did have to: #define alloca __builtin_alloca at one point in winsup/... at one point, though. cgf
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