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From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Got alloca() for Unix 386?
Message-ID: <7600@gollum.twg.com>
Date: 16 Jul 90 05:50:36 GMT
References: <273@intek01.UUCP>
Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron)
Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA
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In article <273@intek01.UUCP> mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) writes:
>I'm trying to get smail3 up on my Unix 386 box, but Wollongong's network
>library calls alloca(), which is nowhere to be found on my system.

Unless I'm mistaken, on SysV alloca() is over in libPW.a

If you can't find it on any of your standard libraries you'll find
one somewhere in the GNU software.  The Emacs distribution if I
remember right...

Yes, I just checked on one of our SysV machines.  Add -lPW to 
your cc line.
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