getNext
David Piepgrass
qwertie256 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 9 00:53:40 PDT 2012
> I've just had an idea that is so dark and devious, I was almost
> afraid to try it. But it works like a charm. Consider:
>
> T * getNext(R, E)(ref R range,
> ref E store = *(cast(E*) alloca(E.sizeof))
> {
> ...
> }
I don't know if this proposal went anywhere since 2010, but it
occurs to me that there is a hidden danger here. alloca will
allocate a sequence of separate temporaries. If the collection is
large, the stack will overflow, and the client might not have a
clue what happened.
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