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• doc/alloca.texi

• @c Documentation of gnulib module 'alloca'.
  
  @c Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  
  @c Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
  @c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
  @c any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
  @c Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
  @c Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free
  @c Documentation License'' file as part of this distribution.
  
  The alloca module provides for a function alloca() which allocates memory
  on the stack, where the system allows it. A memory block allocated with alloca()
  exists only until the function that calls alloca() returns or exits abruptly.
  
  There are a few systems where this is not possible: HP-UX systems, and some
  other platforms when the C++ compiler is used. On these platforms the alloca
  module provides a malloc() based emulation. This emulation will not free a
  memory block immediately when the calling function returns, but rather will
  wait until the next alloca() call from a function with the same or a shorter
  stack length. Thus, in some cases, a few memory blocks will be kept although
  they are not needed any more.
  
  The user can #include <alloca.h> and use alloca() on all platforms. Note
  that the #include <alloca.h> must be the first one after the autoconf-generated
  config.h. Thanks to AIX for this nice restriction!
  
  An alternative to this module is the 'alloca-opt' module.
  

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