[llvmlinux] Can alloca() be used in the kernel instead of VLAIS or VLA?

Behan Webster behanw at converseincode.com
Mon Feb 2 09:54:34 UTC 2015


The kernel can't use the standard c library. It appears to since the kernel has implemented functions which look like those in the c library. But the kernel is in fact compiled with a bare compiler (essentially all userspace OS related stuff like libraries turned off)

Behan

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> On Feb 2, 2015, at 1:57 AM, Vinícius Tinti <viniciustinti at gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/alloca.3.html
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