Re: compile-time warnings on Solaris 8 64-bit sparc (gcc 4.1.0)

[Paul Eggert]

"Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden> writes:

> At that time it would be a good idea to look through gnulib etc. for
> opportunities for re-use.

OK, thanks for the heads-up.  I expect that gnulib should be able to
import some fixes from 'make' as well, e.g., for the glob/fnmatch
area.


> PS. I checked the gnulib manual on the gnu.org website and there's no
>     mention of alloca-opt there??

I found it here:

http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnulib/gnulib/MODULES.html?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/html#module=alloca-opt

If you read between the lines of that implementation, you'll find
another concern: many implementations have unreliable 'alloca'
implementations, that can result in unchecked buffer overruns when you
allocate buffers that are "too large".  This is partly why I was
concerned about those warnings.  The gnulib allocsa module attempts to
address this problem; I'm not entirely happy with it (and don't use it
myself, preferring to do the checking on my own) but I don't have
anything better to offer.