/* Memory allocation on the stack. Copyright (C) 1995, 1999, 2001-2004, 2006-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ /* Avoid using the symbol _ALLOCA_H here, as Bison assumes _ALLOCA_H means there is a real alloca function. */ #ifndef _GL_ALLOCA_H #define _GL_ALLOCA_H /* alloca (N) returns a pointer to N bytes of memory allocated on the stack, which will last until the function returns. Use of alloca should be avoided: - inside arguments of function calls - undefined behaviour, - in inline functions - the allocation may actually last until the calling function returns, - for huge N (say, N >= 65536) - you never know how large (or small) the stack is, and when the stack cannot fulfill the memory allocation request, the program just crashes. */ #ifndef alloca # ifdef __GNUC__ # define alloca __builtin_alloca # elif defined _AIX # define alloca __alloca # elif defined _MSC_VER # include <malloc.h> # define alloca _alloca # elif defined __DECC && defined __VMS # define alloca __ALLOCA # elif defined __TANDEM && defined _TNS_E_TARGET # ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" # endif void *_alloca (unsigned short); # pragma intrinsic (_alloca) # define alloca _alloca # else # include <stddef.h> # ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" # endif void *alloca (size_t); # endif #endif #endif /* _GL_ALLOCA_H */