[PATCH 1/4] latencystats: use alloca instead of vla trivial

[Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>]

RFC sample illustrating simple conversion of VLA to alloca().

Signed-off-by: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>
---
 lib/latencystats/rte_latencystats.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/latencystats/rte_latencystats.c b/lib/latencystats/rte_latencystats.c
index 4ea9b0d..f59a9eb 100644
--- a/lib/latencystats/rte_latencystats.c
+++ b/lib/latencystats/rte_latencystats.c
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ struct latency_stats_nameoff {
 {
 	unsigned int i, cnt = 0;
 	uint64_t now;
-	float latency[nb_pkts];
+	float *latency = alloca(sizeof(float) * nb_pkts);
 	static float prev_latency;
 	/*
 	 * Alpha represents degree of weighting decrease in EWMA,
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