Re: Tests rely on alloca()

"Anthony J. Bentley" writes:
> Hi,
>
> Several tests use alloca() to allocate memory. But alloca() is not part of
> C99, and on OpenBSD this leads to linking errors since the NetSurf build
> system specifies -std=c99:
>
> LINK: build-OpenBSD-OpenBSD-release-lib-shared/test_parser
> cc -o build-OpenBSD-OpenBSD-release-lib-shared/test_parser build-OpenBSD-Open
> BSD-release-lib-shared/test_parser.o -Lbuild-OpenBSD-OpenBSD-release-lib-shar
> ed/ -lhubbub -g -L/usr/local/lib -liconv -L/usr/local/lib -ljson-c
> build-OpenBSD-OpenBSD-release-lib-shared/test_parser.o(.text+0x578): In funct
> ion `run_test':
> test/parser.c:28: undefined reference to `alloca'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I've replaced these with calls to malloc():

https://github.com/bentley/libcss/
https://github.com/bentley/libhubbub/
https://github.com/bentley/libparserutils/

If these could be pulled into the main repositories that would be great.

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Anthony J. Bentley