[Python-Dev] [win32] Killing MSVC's _alloca

[Martin v. Loewis]

"Delaney, Timothy" <tdelaney@avaya.com> writes:

> None at all. MinGW is not a Unix emulation. There is a minimal shell
> environment (MSYS) which works with MinGW (allowing use of the autoconf/make
> toolchain) but the produced binaries have no reliance on anything except the
> native win32 libraries.

To me, this is a clear indication that there is a bug in mingw
here. If they want to be a Windows compiler, they have to provide MSVC
compatibility (and they do, to some degree); this also means they have
to provide _alloca, since this is the Windows name of that feature.

Regards,
Martin