Go Your Own Way (Part One: The Stack)

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 7/7/17 9:51 PM, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Saturday, 8 July 2017 at 01:28:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 7/7/2017 4:35 PM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
>>> It's an intrinsic in LDC. We can certainly drop the per platform and 
>>> move to a per compiler definition instead.
>>
>> It's already there under:
>>
>>     version (DigitalMars)
> 
> I read this as CRuntime_DigitalMars, which prompted a search that led me 
> to a page at MSDN on _alloca, which gave me a compiler error when I 
> prototyped it, which led to my prototyping alloca for CRuntime_Microsoft 
> and finding success, which has now confirmed my worry that publishing 
> without a review was a bad idea. I've updated the post. Thanks!

Ha! as someone who doesn't regularly develop on Windows, I didn't even test.

I should have known better, as I've used alloca in druntime, and that 
wouldn't work if it didn't build on Win64.

-Steve