Re: gnulib and threaded execution

[Bruno Haible]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> >   2. because the alloca.c code assumes that there is a "stack
> >      direction". This is not the case any more with GCC's new
> >      "split stacks" <http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SplitStacks>.
> 
> Is #2 really relevant?
> alloca.c is compiled with gcc only for 1.x versions.

You're right, my mistake. When split stacks are in use, the burden
of implementing alloca() is on GCC's side.

Bruno