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      1 /* Memory allocation on the stack.
      2 
      3    Copyright (C) 1995, 1999, 2001-2004, 2006-2012 Free Software Foundation,
      4    Inc.
      5 
      6    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
      7    under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
      8    by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
      9    any later version.
     10 
     11    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
     12    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
     13    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
     14    General Public License for more details.
     15 
     16    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
     17    License along with this program; if not, see
     18    <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
     19   */
     20 
     21 /* Avoid using the symbol _ALLOCA_H here, as Bison assumes _ALLOCA_H
     22    means there is a real alloca function.  */
     23 #ifndef _GL_ALLOCA_H
     24 #define _GL_ALLOCA_H
     25 
     26 /* alloca (N) returns a pointer to N bytes of memory
     27    allocated on the stack, which will last until the function returns.
     28    Use of alloca should be avoided:
     29      - inside arguments of function calls - undefined behaviour,
     30      - in inline functions - the allocation may actually last until the
     31        calling function returns,
     32      - for huge N (say, N >= 65536) - you never know how large (or small)
     33        the stack is, and when the stack cannot fulfill the memory allocation
     34        request, the program just crashes.
     35  */
     36 
     37 #ifndef alloca
     38 # ifdef __GNUC__
     39 #  define alloca __builtin_alloca
     40 # elif defined _AIX
     41 #  define alloca __alloca
     42 # elif defined _MSC_VER
     43 #  include <malloc.h>
     44 #  define alloca _alloca
     45 # elif defined __DECC && defined __VMS
     46 #  define alloca __ALLOCA
     47 # elif defined __TANDEM && defined _TNS_E_TARGET
     48 #  ifdef  __cplusplus
     49 extern "C"
     50 #  endif
     51 void *_alloca (unsigned short);
     52 #  pragma intrinsic (_alloca)
     53 #  define alloca _alloca
     54 # else
     55 #  include <stddef.h>
     56 #  ifdef  __cplusplus
     57 extern "C"
     58 #  endif
     59 void *alloca (size_t);
     60 # endif
     61 #endif
     62 
     63 #endif /* _GL_ALLOCA_H */
     64