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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