Re: alloca and GC

[Michael Livshin]

Colin Walters <address@hidden> writes:

> Keisuke Nishida <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Does it allocate memory in the C stack as well?  It might be great
> > if I could use it because the VM would be simplified a bit with it.
> 
> Oops, no, on closer inspection, it appears to just be the portable
> malloc-using version Martin mentioned.  Oh, well.

if a portable `alloca' was _possible_ at all, would this thread even
exist?

Keisuke: you already have two versions of your VM, one GCC-specific
and the other generic ANSI C, right?  no problem then, let those
non-gcc using folks suffer. ;)

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