Proprosed break in libGL / DRI driver ABI
Alan Coopersmith
Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Wed Apr 6 23:31:55 PDT 2005
Roland Mainz wrote:
> Depends... if |alloca()| can safely be used on all platforms supported
> by Mesa then this should be no problem to implement.
I don't think the Solaris implementation of alloca counts as "safe"
unfortunately, due to this warning in the man page:
If the allocated block is beyond the current stack limit,
the resulting behavior is undefined.
It certainly scares me away from most uses.
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