[Vm-dev] Building OSVM in Windows 11 and Cygwin64 ...

[Eliot Miranda]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 9:29 AM Ron Teitelbaum <ron at usmedrec.com> wrote:

>
> Just saw this:
>
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/reference/alloca?view=msvc-170
>
> _alloca
>
> Article
> 10/26/2022
>
> Allocates memory on the stack. This function is *deprecated* because a
> more secure version is available; see:
>
>  _malloca
> <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/reference/malloca?view=msvc-170>
> .
>

Mucroshaft are such irritating *FUCKS*.  It has exactly the same signature
as alloca.  Why didn't they just upgrade the implementation instead of
forcing everyone to rewrite their code??

>
>
>
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/reference/malloca?view=msvc-170
>
> Requirements
>
> RoutineRequired header
> _malloca<malloc.h>
>
> All the best,
>
> Ron Teitelbaum
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 12:00 PM Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all!
>>
>> Has anybody tried to build OSVM in Windows 11 via Cygwin64?
>>
>> clang-8 does not work because "_alloca" cannot be found ... hmm...
>>
>>
>> So, who implements _alloca? It's not msvcrt.dll ... how to find that out?
>>
>> Best,
>> Marcel
>>
>

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best, Eliot
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