Dynamic Sized Stack Frames

[Mike Parker]

On 11/18/2013 3:03 PM, Jonathan Marler wrote:
> On Monday, 18 November 2013 at 05:58:25 UTC, Chris Cain wrote:

>> core.stdc.stdlib has "alloca" ... it allocates a runtime configurable
>> amount of memory on the stack. There's a few threads on doing some
>> tricks with it. For instance, if you use it as a default parameter,
>> then it'll allocate on the caller's stack so you can actually return a
>> ref to it from the function :)
>
> Are you serious?  It seems the more I learn about D the more impressed I
> become.  Thanks for the quick response :)

While D is awesome, alloca is actually a standard C function, which is 
why it's in the core.stdc.stdlib package. You have full access to the C 
standard library from D.