Re: Bison 1.30f

[Hans Aberg]

At 18:11 -0800 2001/12/12, Paul Eggert wrote:
>alloca is notoriously nonstandardized, which is why "include
><alloca.h>" is so carefully protected in bison.simple.

The principal designer BS thinks it's a low level hack that should not be
used; discussions in the comp.std.c++ newsgroup indicated it will not
become a part of the future C++ standard.

I do not know if alloca is a part of C99, though.

BTW, when using malloc, what stack re-allocation policy is the Bison
generated parser using? -- The thing is if one doubles the stack for every
new memory allocation, then time allocation complexity becomes linear.

  Hans Aberg