Author: Warner Losh Date: To: Lee McLoughlin CC: Exim Mailing List Subject: Re: Exim buffer overruns [was Re: Hoo boy...]
In message <33D52E58.4C265C03@???> Lee McLoughlin writes:
: There are some C library routines that do the same job. Thats what
: emacs uses.
Well, the alloca that comes with emacs "works" for some definition of
working. Basically, what it tries to do is have a simplified gc when
someone wants to alloca a new chunk. Approx the same thing, but not
quite, since it consumes stack space.
