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From: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
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Subject: Re: bash 1.01 on the unixpc
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Date: 24 Jun 89 21:21:22 GMT
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> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 21:23:23 PDT
> From: andy@csvax.caltech.edu (Andy Fyfe)

> As it stands, gcc's __builtin_alloca is used only for the UnixPC.
> I'd expect every user of gcc would want this, so the diffs change this
> around for alloca rather than fix the typo.

A number of alloca() implementations are broken, so it really is
better to use the GNU C version if possible no matter what the system.
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