Change 'shred' to not use alloca.

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-2006-04-18  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
+2006-04-18  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
        * Version 6.0-cvs.
 
+       * src/shred.c (fillrand): The assertion was way too weak, due to
+       what must be a typo.  Strengthen it to its intended value.
+       (dopass): Don't use alloca; it's not worth the aggravation here,
+       since it's used only to get a page-aligned buffer, and page
+       alignment doesn't buy us much here.  I'm suspicious that alloca
+       causes problems on some hosts, due to a recent bug report by Adam
+       Waltman.
+
+2006-04-18  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
+
        * tests/misc/tty-eof: Add new programs, base64, sha224sum, sha256sum,
        sha384sum, sha512sum.