From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-09-04T00:04:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Should we check alloca ret val?

Hi,

At Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:35:26 +0900,
Michal Rokos wrote:
> 	I went through ALLOCA_N use and it seems that the ret val of
> 	alloca() is never checked...
> 
> 	Shouldn't we do something like: if (!mem) raise_something()? (I
> 	know that it is a slowdown, but we can catch few segfaults by
> 	this...)

If alloca() were failed, it doesn't always return NULL.

-- 
Nobu Nakada