[parted-devel] [Parted-edge] [RFC][PATCH] Remove alloca from libparted/arch/linux.c

[Otavio Salvador]

Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net> writes:

> IMHO, when something exceptional happens in a library, the
> affected function should simply return with an indication of
> what went wrong.  Unfortunately, making this particular
> library clean would be a big and risky task.

Yes, I now agree with you.

But Jim, if this is the right thing to do we ought start doing it now
since we can break API (on master).

Obviously that we're going to need a lot of testing and like but I
can't think in a better time for it.

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