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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "DJ Delorie" <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: next porting question for gcj
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 14:05:51 +1000
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----- Original Message -----
From: "DJ Delorie" <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: next porting question for gcj


>
> 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.
>

All the same, the bootstrapped stage 3 g++ failed to find alloca.
__builtin_alloca was found easily enough.

Rob