Phobos for Review: std.buffer.scopebuffer

[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

On Saturday, 8 February 2014 at 00:59:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
>
> void fun(void* sneaky = alloca(42));
>
> will allocate memory on fun caller's frame and make it 
> available to fun.
>
> I've known this for a while and am not sure whether it's an 
> awesome idiom of the spawn of devil.

Quoting the GNU alloca() man page:

"On many systems alloca() cannot be used inside the list of 
arguments of a function call, because the stack space reserved by 
alloca() would appear on the stack in the middle of the space for 
the function arguments."

So... devil spawn, then?