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Re:The Strict Aliasing Situation Is Pretty Bad by mcguire on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @04:05PM (#11292562)
Ok, what's wrong with alloca? Other than blowing the stack, that is.
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Re:The Strict Aliasing Situation Is Pretty Bad by haberman on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @06:00PM (#11293353)
See: https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Variable-L...

At least that's the rationale for why we don't use it at Google.

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Re:The Strict Aliasing Situation Is Pretty Bad by mcguire on Thursday March 17, 2016 @11:56AM (#11305159)
"More importantly, they allocate a data-dependent amount of stack space that can trigger difficult-to-find memory overwriting bugs: "It ran fine on my machine, but dies mysteriously in production"."

Yep, blowing the stack will do that.

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