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Date:      Tue, 22 Jul 2003 21:37:44 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/getconf getconf.c
Message-ID:  <20030722212644.D7733@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200307212055.h6LKtc3l064104@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Mark Murray wrote:

> markm       2003/07/21 13:55:38 PDT
>
>   FreeBSD src repository
>
>   Modified files:
>     usr.bin/getconf      getconf.c
>   Log:
>   Replace an alloca() call with a slightly more standard malloc()/free()
>   pair.

Isn't malloc()/free() more than slightly standard?

Variable-length arrays are more than slightly standard too (they became
standard before getconf) and are well suited to replacing alloca() here.

Bruce


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