From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:47:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/19] Portable alloca for Git
Message-ID: <xmqq1txrp8ur.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140305093151.GA3994@tugrik.mns.mnsspb.ru>

Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 06:19:58PM +0100, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru> wrote:
>> ...
>> > In fact that would be maybe preferred, for maintainers to enable alloca
>> > with knowledge and testing, as one person can't have them all at hand.
>> 
>> Yeah, you're probably right.
>
> Erik, the patch has been merged into pu today. Would you please
> follow-up with tested MINGW change?

Sooo.... I lost track but this discussion seems to have petered out
around here.  I think the copy we have had for a while on 'pu' is
basically sound, and can easily built on by platform folks by adding
or removing the -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H from the Makefile.