From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFA] mi/mi-main.c: Don't use variable-length array extension
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 07:21:00 -0000
Message-id: <3B49BDD5.90803@cygnus.com>
References: <1010709062833.ZM9934@ocotillo.lan>
X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00198.html

> These are probably obvious fixes, but I used alloca() which is
> sometimes considered objectionable, so I decided to ask for approval. 
> I'm willing to rework the patch to use xmalloc(), make_cleanup(), etc,
> but it will be messier.
> 
> 	* mi-main.c (register_changed_p, get_register): Use alloca()
> 	to allocate space previously allocated via gcc's
> 	variable-length array extension.


This is one of the uses of alloca that everyone has grown accustomed to.

	Andrew