[4924] in testers
Re: possibly-relevant fix to an ORBit bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Jun 28 19:09:21 2001
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cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Jun 2001 18:12:46 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 19:09:15 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I think it's consistent with the wacky style in the ORBit code, but
> no big deal.
In at least one place, a right brace was dangling way to the left of
the appropriate place (which was very confusing), and I think there
were some other problems.
> It's not a portability problem for ORBit because the rest of ORBit
> and its generated RPC code depend heavily on alloca.
You're right; I wasn't able to verify this before, but I checked more
thoroughly and it's definitely used. So, alloca stays.
