[LLVMdev] Fix for non-standard variable length array

[Paolo Invernizzi]

I submitted a patch with a std::vector, but was commited as alloca ;-P

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On Oct 18, 2004, at 4:04 PM, Morten Ofstad wrote:

>> There was a similar problem some time ago, and was resolved with 
>> alloca. I think it's a better solution to use the stack instead of 
>> the heap...
>
> Actually, I looked into this and alloca is not standard C++ since it 
> can create problems for the exception handling (although it compiles 
> fine with Visual C). This is probably why there have been compilation 
> problems on some platforms (see 
> http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2004-September/001992.html) 
> -- A better alternative is maybe to use the std::vector instead of a 
> VLA.
>
> m.
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