Proprosed break in libGL / DRI driver ABI

[Alan Coopersmith]

Roland Mainz wrote:
> Depends... if |alloca()| can safely be used on all platforms supported
> by Mesa then this should be no problem to implement. 

I don't think the Solaris implementation of alloca counts as "safe"
unfortunately, due to this warning in the man page:
    If the allocated block is beyond the current stack limit,
    the resulting behavior is undefined.

It certainly scares me away from most uses.

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