[osol-code] Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] Trouble with "ERROR:ctfconvert:pics/wordexp.o: Couldn't parse stab "#vla0:(0, 14)" (source file pics/wordexp.o)" ...

[Casper.Dik at Sun.COM]

>Variable length arrays are AFAIK a GCCism that has been invented to 
>avoid the problems caused the need for a platform/compiler specific
>alloca.h. It later made it into the C99 standard.


Which is strange because if the compiler can do variable sized arrays it
can presumably do alloca() just as well.

(Of course, the Sun compiler implements alloca() itself; on other
systems it was a function which did something with the stack)

Casper