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Date:      Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:48:59 -0500
From:      Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Is replacing alloca(3) where possible a good thing to do?
Message-ID:  <d192dbeb-5647-e552-9db1-b478aa7ac057@FreeBSD.org>

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FWIW,

After some discussion with one of the principal Illumos developers it is 
clear that they won't accept replacing alloca(3) for the sake of 
"portability". You also can't always replace alloca(3) with VLAs anyways.

Pedro.




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