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

[Christian Tismer]

Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>>Doesn't MSVC have alloca?
>>
> 
>>It seems that it does.
> 
> 
> Without checking: It probably has this only if __STDC__ is not
> defined. MSVC hides all non-standard symbols if __STDC__ is defined -
> either by compiler switches, or in some application header.

Hmm. I had this problem (no alloca, no idea why) and defined
it by a macro in this case.
Is it cleaner to undefine __STDC__ instead?

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