Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 2/5] port of Joe's backup-files.c over my nftw/ftw/fts replacement

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Thursday 15 September 2005 17:13, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > Use gcc builtin alloca on platforms without alloca.h
>
> I don't much like adding a dependency on gcc.

It's just an optimisation.

Currently we have:

If there is alloca.h, use it
else fail to compile.

With the patch:

If there is alloca.h, use it
else if alloca is #defined, use that
else if using gcc, use it's builtin asm alloca
else fail to compile.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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