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Hodor. HODOR! Hodor?

That's twice today you've given a historical reason (thanks). Perhaps you need to change your signature to include "C Museum Curator" :D

I don't think I went the wrong direction at all... neither:



// alloc some memory on the stack
char *mem = alloca(909204922490);


nor

To be fair, any auto object that's too large for the "stack" is going to simply crash and burn anyway. It seems, to me, that alloca() offers very few advantages (perhaps pre c99 it was a kind of...

Heck, it's not even POSIX. The (GNU) man page looks like a mystery investigation trying to determine its origin.