Fwd: [Xquartz-dev] ALLOCATE_LOCAL / crashes

[Keith Packard]

On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 12:29 -0800, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> Hi Keith,
> 
> We've been having some trouble due to alloca(BIG) in the Xquartz  
> server.  Could you comment on the acceptability of something like Greg  
> suggests below?  Should we put it inside __APPLE__ ifdefs, or do you  
> think it would be good across the board?  Or do you have a better  
> solution we should think about?

Master has removed alloca for the X server -- it's insecure, and prone
to failure. Just use malloc.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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