Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:37:03 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: adsl/pppoe no longer connecting on 5.1 Message-ID: <3EE8C84F.9040106@acm.org> References: <200306112248.AA655556764@141.com> <20030612045022.GA36033@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030612051812.GQ48387@mail.evip.pl> <20030612153849.A57744@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <200306121617.h5CGHbQw084862@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman wrote: > alloca() in libc is *fundamentally* broken. Only the compiler can > know the current state of the stack frame... Sounds like alloca() should simply be stricken from libc on all architectures. Might also be a good idea to begin removing uses of it. Searching through the source tree, I note that there's only a handful of uses of alloca outside of contrib and gnu. Tim Kientzle
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