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| From | Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> |
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| Subject | Re: Dinamic array without malloc - Can be done? |
| Date | Sun, 15 Jan 2017 16:23:20 -0800 |
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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
> On Sunday, January 15, 2017 at 2:51:04 PM UTC-6, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> alloca() is neither ISO C nor POSIX, though it's supported on a lot of
>> Unix-like systems.
>
> The alloca() macro/intrinsic/whatever has poorly-defined semantics which
> severely limit the situations where it can be used safely. Things would
> have been much better if there had been a corresponding freea() intrinsic,
> and code was required to freea() blocks in reverse order of allocation,
> and before a function returned. Since an implementation could have
> achieved the required semantics simply by aliasing alloca() and freea()
> to malloc() and free(), though doing so would forego potentially-useful
> optimizations]. As it is, alloca() was a hack that was easy to implement
> with some compilers, but would require a lot more work to implement
> usefully on others.
The whole point of alloca() is that you don't have to deallocate the
memory. Requiring freea() calls in a particular order would defeat that
purpose. What happens if a program doesn't call freea()?
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"
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