[Python-Dev] [win32] Killing MSVC's _alloca (original) (raw)

Mark Hammond mhammond@skippinet.com.au
Sat, 5 Oct 2002 09:34:16 +1000

> Trying to get around to my mingw32 port again. I currently don't > have Visual C++ installed, but why is this nonstandard alloca > needed? Can't it simply be replaced by alloca? Doesn't MSVC have > alloca?

It seems that it does. But I guess alloca is more politically correct, since alloca is not standard C. > For the moment, I'm as far as building posixmodule.c, which I > succeeded by doing a > > #define alloca alloca > > If there's a way to kill MSVC peculiarities, could this please be done? I'd be happy to do a global subst of alloca -> alloca. Mark, do you see any reason why this might not work?

None at all.

Mark.