From: Michal Rokos <m.rokos@...>
Date: 2002-09-10T18:07:09+09:00
Subject: Re: [Fix, NO alloca] Parse.y

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 07:22:09AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> In message "[Fix, NO alloca] Parse.y"
>     on 02/09/09, Michal Rokos <m.rokos@sh.cvut.cz> writes:
> 
> |	there are some places where we don't need to use alloca.
> |	This is one of these.
> 
> Why do we have to avoid alloca?

	ALLOCA macro just runs alloca. No NULL check is done (and I've
	been said that if alloca fails, not allways returns NULL).

	We run into problems when long we try to alloca big amount of
	memory.

	That's why we should use malloc (where we can).

		Michal

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