alloca.h

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/* $Id: alloca.h 1508 2007-12-18 13:36:50Z dmix $       */

#ifndef _ALLOCA_H
#define _ALLOCA_H  1

#include <stddef.h>

/** \defgroup alloca <alloca.h>: Allocate space in the stack    */

/** \ingroup alloca
    \brief Allocate \a __size bytes of space in the stack frame of the caller.

    This temporary space is automatically freed when the function that
    called alloca() returns to its caller. Avr-libc defines the alloca() as
    a macro, which is translated into the inlined \c __builtin_alloca()
    function. The fact that the code is inlined, means that it is impossible
    to take the address of this function, or to change its behaviour by
    linking with a different library.

    \return alloca() returns a pointer to the beginning of the allocated
    space. If the allocation causes stack overflow, program behaviour is
    undefined.
    
    \warning Avoid use alloca() inside the list of arguments of a function
    call.
 */
extern void *alloca (size_t __size);

#define alloca(size)    __builtin_alloca (size)

#endif  /* alloca.h */