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<h1>alloca.h</h1><div class="fragment"><pre class="fragment"><a name="l00001"></a>00001 <span class="comment">/* Copyright (c) 2007, Dmitry Xmelkov</span>
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<a name="l00027"></a>00027 <span class="comment"> POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. */</span>
<a name="l00028"></a>00028
<a name="l00029"></a>00029 <span class="comment">/* $Id$ */</span>
<a name="l00030"></a>00030
<a name="l00031"></a>00031 <span class="preprocessor">#ifndef _ALLOCA_H</span>
<a name="l00032"></a>00032 <span class="preprocessor"></span><span class="preprocessor">#define _ALLOCA_H 1</span>
<a name="l00033"></a>00033 <span class="preprocessor"></span>
<a name="l00034"></a>00034 <span class="preprocessor">#include <stddef.h></span>
<a name="l00035"></a>00035 <span class="comment"></span>
<a name="l00036"></a>00036 <span class="comment">/** \defgroup alloca <alloca.h>: Allocate space in the stack */</span>
<a name="l00037"></a>00037 <span class="comment"></span>
<a name="l00038"></a>00038 <span class="comment">/** \ingroup alloca</span>
<a name="l00039"></a>00039 <span class="comment"> \brief Allocate \a __size bytes of space in the stack frame of the caller.</span>
<a name="l00040"></a>00040 <span class="comment"></span>
<a name="l00041"></a>00041 <span class="comment"> This temporary space is automatically freed when the function that</span>
<a name="l00042"></a>00042 <span class="comment"> called alloca() returns to its caller. Avr-libc defines the alloca() as</span>
<a name="l00043"></a>00043 <span class="comment"> a macro, which is translated into the inlined \c __builtin_alloca()</span>
<a name="l00044"></a>00044 <span class="comment"> function. The fact that the code is inlined, means that it is impossible</span>
<a name="l00045"></a>00045 <span class="comment"> to take the address of this function, or to change its behaviour by</span>
<a name="l00046"></a>00046 <span class="comment"> linking with a different library.</span>
<a name="l00047"></a>00047 <span class="comment"></span>
<a name="l00048"></a>00048 <span class="comment"> \return alloca() returns a pointer to the beginning of the allocated</span>
<a name="l00049"></a>00049 <span class="comment"> space. If the allocation causes stack overflow, program behaviour is</span>
<a name="l00050"></a>00050 <span class="comment"> undefined.</span>
<a name="l00051"></a>00051 <span class="comment"> </span>
<a name="l00052"></a>00052 <span class="comment"> \warning Avoid use alloca() inside the list of arguments of a function</span>
<a name="l00053"></a>00053 <span class="comment"> call.</span>
<a name="l00054"></a>00054 <span class="comment"> */</span>
<a name="l00055"></a>00055 <span class="keyword">extern</span> <span class="keywordtype">void</span> *<a class="code" href="group__alloca.html#gabdd78c9d072e9d390bed0e8b79087a85" title="Allocate __size bytes of space in the stack frame of the caller.">alloca</a> (<span class="keywordtype">size_t</span> __size);
<a name="l00056"></a>00056
<a name="l00057"></a>00057 <span class="preprocessor">#define alloca(size) __builtin_alloca (size)</span>
<a name="l00058"></a>00058 <span class="preprocessor"></span>
<a name="l00059"></a>00059 <span class="preprocessor">#endif </span><span class="comment">/* alloca.h */</span>
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