Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2008-01-24 17:02:31 +0100, Michael Kerrisk wrote: >> Is alloca() used and tested on each of those platforms? > > That's very probable. The only way to avoid alloca() is to build GMP > with --disable-alloca and to build MPFR using the GMP build directory > (i.e. with --with-gmp-build). MPFR uses alloca() for its low level > functions.
Hi Vincent, So, I'm not quite clear. Are you happy with the new man page description of alloca()? Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Want to report a man-pages bug? Look here: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]