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		dextorious on Dec 31, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Xcode 4 ships a buggy compiler so alloca(-1) would succeed too, right?

FooBarWidget on Dec 31, 2011 | [–]

No. According to the OS X and Linux man pages 'size' has type 'size_t'. It is undefined whether size_t is signed.

Someone on Dec 31, 2011 | [–]

alloca takes a sixe_t. I think size_t is unsigned. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1089176/is-size-t-always-... seems to agree with that (correction welcome)

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