Re: stack memory

[Mike Stump]

On Oct 21, 2005, at 8:05 AM, Ivan Novick wrote:
With the sun compiler, the declared buffer is pushed onto the stack  
upon
entry into function foo and not only when it goes into scope.

Yup.

Do you know if gcc will use the stack for the buffer if it never  
goes into scope?

Yes, it usually will.  If you require that it not, use a different  
function and use noline.