# HG changeset patch
# User Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
# Date 867541526 0
# Node ID 42257ed9c7e37383877b7f09614a9da4a86d961c
# Parent  3a7fb597e8a8f942f79fc2cfe8e005936bba22c6
(Fcall_process): Avoid storing alloca result
directly into array element.

diff -r 3a7fb597e8a8 -r 42257ed9c7e3 src/callproc.c
--- a/src/callproc.c	Sat Jun 28 23:28:13 1997 +0000
+++ b/src/callproc.c	Sat Jun 28 23:45:26 1997 +0000
@@ -391,8 +391,10 @@
 	    int size = encoding_buffer_size (&argument_coding,
 					     XSTRING (args[i])->size);
 	    int produced, dummy;
+	    unsigned char *dummy = (unsigned char *) alloca (size);
 
-	    new_argv[i - 3] = (unsigned char *) alloca (size);
+	    /* The Irix 4.0 compiler barfs if we eliminate dummy.  */
+	    new_argv[i - 3] = dummy;
 	    produced = encode_coding (&argument_coding,
 				      XSTRING (args[i])->data, new_argv[i - 3],
 				      XSTRING (args[i])->size, size, &dummy);