1 /* Memory allocation on the stack. 2 3 Copyright (C) 1995, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software 4 Foundation, Inc. 5 6 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 7 under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published 8 by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 9 any later version. 10 11 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 14 General Public License for more details. 15 16 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public 17 License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software 18 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, 19 USA. */ 20 21 /* Avoid using the symbol _ALLOCA_H here, as Bison assumes _ALLOCA_H 22 means there is a real alloca function. */ 23 #ifndef _GNULIB_ALLOCA_H 24 # define _GNULIB_ALLOCA_H 25 26 /* alloca (N) returns a pointer to N bytes of memory 27 allocated on the stack, which will last until the function returns. 28 Use of alloca should be avoided: 29 - inside arguments of function calls - undefined behaviour, 30 - in inline functions - the allocation may actually last until the 31 calling function returns, 32 - for huge N (say, N >= 65536) - you never know how large (or small) 33 the stack is, and when the stack cannot fulfill the memory allocation 34 request, the program just crashes. 35 */ 36 37 #ifdef __GNUC__ 38 # define alloca __builtin_alloca 39 #elif defined _AIX 40 # define alloca __alloca 41 #elif defined _MSC_VER 42 # include <malloc.h> 43 # define alloca _alloca 44 #else 45 # include <stddef.h> 46 # ifdef __cplusplus 47 extern "C" 48 # endif 49 void *alloca (size_t); 50 #endif 51 52 #endif /* _GNULIB_ALLOCA_H */ 53