alloca cannot be a function. #define it to the gcc builtin if possible

gcc makes this mapping by default anyway, but it will be disabled by
-fno-builtin (and presumably by -std=c99 or similar). for the main
program the error will be reported by the linker, and the issue can
easily be fixed, but for dynamic-loaded so files, the error cannot be
detected until dlopen time, at which point it has become very obscure.

diff --git a/include/alloca.h b/include/alloca.h
index f61b817a54e192a1e32440be48522958c05f1454..d2e6f1c681eebba9b016df23d2e2fb7a54f5942a 100644 (file)
--- a/include/alloca.h
+++ b/include/alloca.h
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ extern "C" {
 
 void *alloca(size_t);
 
+#ifdef __GNUC__
+#define alloca __builtin_alloca
+#endif
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif