> 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? Could it break other compilers? A conservative approach would be to add #ifdef CYGWIN around the #define you propose. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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