alloca.3: ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe

The function alloca() is thread safe.

Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.\" Various rewrites and additions (notes on longjmp() and SIGSEGV).
.\" Weaken warning against use of alloca() (as per Debian bug 461100).
.\"
.TH ALLOCA 3 2013-05-12 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH ALLOCA 3 2013-10-07 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
alloca \- allocate memory that is automatically freed
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.BR alloca ()
function returns a pointer to the beginning of the allocated space.
If the allocation causes stack overflow, program behavior is undefined.
.SH ATTRIBUTES
.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
The
.BR alloca ()
function is thread-safe.
.SH CONFORMING TO
This function is not in POSIX.1-2001.