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<p dir="auto">I don't think it's a good idea to eliminate <code>alloca</code> just because we stumbled upon a portability bug, and one that's not unsolvable (<code>alloca</code> portability was one of the first tasks for Autoconf decades ago :-)).</p>
<p dir="auto">The patch I submitted eliminates what's problematic about existing uses of <code>alloca</code>: unbounded stack growth.  I now realize it's not what you had in mind for <a href="https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/issues/684" data-original="#684" data-link="false" data-link-reference="false" data-project="179611" data-issue="17629410" data-reference-type="issue" data-container="body" data-placement="bottom" title="Eliminate alloca() use in the guile bindings" class="gfm gfm-issue has-tooltip">#684</a>, but I think it's an improvement nonetheless.</p>
<p dir="auto">WDYT?</p>
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