cvs commit: src/usr.bin/getconf getconf.c

Mark Murray mark at grondar.org
Tue Jul 22 05:03:58 PDT 2003


Bruce Evans writes:
> >   Replace an alloca() call with a slightly more standard malloc()/free()
> >   pair.
> 
> Isn't malloc()/free() more than slightly standard?

"Understatement".

> Variable-length arrays are more than slightly standard too (they became
> standard before getconf) and are well suited to replacing alloca() here.

There are very many non-alloca() ways to do this. I chose this way.

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