Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: getdate don't need alloca

[Paul Eggert]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

>> And there's an obsolete comment about AIX and alloca -- we no longer
>> use the alloca pragma, so this shouldn't be a problem.
>
> So AIX 3 is not among your porting targets any more? I still have access
> to such a machine.

I thought the AIX 3 problem occurred only when the code uses #pragma
alloca.  Since the code no longer use that, I hope it's not an issue
with AIX 3 any more.

If it is still an issue, and if AIX 3 machines are still used and
someone can test portability to them, we should address the problem.
However at this point I think it'd be OK to address the issue by
falling back on the replacement alloca written in C, rather than
rewriting fnmatch, makepath, etc. to include <alloca.h> first.