From 76f66be6bfc79104e9f4d0c9ee3ea0c9823ae17a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 22:27:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] prinf: replace use of alloca with variable length array.

Use of alloca(3) is discouraged in FreeBSD. Using a VLA
is simple and should be more portable.

Requested by:	jilles
---
 usr.bin/printf/printf.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/usr.bin/printf/printf.c b/usr.bin/printf/printf.c
index ac122f78c1d9..055657fe057a 100644
--- a/usr.bin/printf/printf.c
+++ b/usr.bin/printf/printf.c
@@ -215,13 +215,11 @@ printf_doformat(char *fmt, int *rval)
 	static const char skip1[] = "#'-+ 0";
 	int fieldwidth, haveprec, havewidth, mod_ldbl, precision;
 	char convch, nextch;
-	char *start;
+	char start[strlen(fmt) + 1];
 	char **fargv;
 	char *dptr;
 	int l;
 
-	start = alloca(strlen(fmt) + 1);
-
 	dptr = start;
 	*dptr++ = '%';
 	*dptr = 0;