The following reply was made to PR pkg/33322; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: joerg@britannica.bec.de
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/33322: textproc/dict-{client,server} gcc 3.4 alloca() problem
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:47:09 +0200

 On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:50:00PM +0000, b1ff@fr33.b33r.net wrote:
 > Makes it build here. Not sure if checking for HAVE_ALLOCA is the
 > correct way. But if it is, maybe the middle __whateverOS__ checks
 > aren't needed?
 
 The problem is that some platforms have alloca in libc or as compiler
 builtin, but don't provide it in system headers.
 
 I don't have the time to deal with this issue, but whoever wants to
 handle it, should go through all patches in the tree which handle this
 case already for DragonFly.
 
 Joerg