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Re:Xcode 4 ships a buggy compiler by dextorious on Saturday December 31, 2011 @05:10AM (#3410613)
so alloca(-1) would succeed too, right?
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Re:Xcode 4 ships a buggy compiler by FooBarWidget on Saturday December 31, 2011 @05:18AM (#3410623)
No. According to the OS X and Linux man pages 'size' has type 'size_t'. It is undefined whether size_t is signed.
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Re:Xcode 4 ships a buggy compiler by Someone on Saturday December 31, 2011 @08:16AM (#3410818)
alloca takes a sixe_t. I think size_t is unsigned. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1089176/is-size-t-always-... seems to agree with that (correction welcome)
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