Re: memory allocations / libxml

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 4 Mar 2002, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 05:35, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   Again no idea what you're speaking about. Allocca is not portable,
> > I won't use it .
> 
> Oh, come on.  Pretty much all the platforms we support have that, and
> it's really trivial to work around the portability problems anyways
> (AC_FUNC_ALLOCA).
> 

libxml's supported platform support is diffferent from gnome's. Man pages
have been saying "alloca is system dependent, its use is discouraged" for
over a decade now - maybe its time to pay attention. Not that it shouldn't
be up to Michael to *FIRST* give proof that changing to alloca gives a
measurable benefit in this specific case anyways...

>
> -- 
> Ettore
> 

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