[Python-Dev] [win32] Killing MSVC's _alloca

[Mark Hammond]

> > 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?

None at all.

Mark.