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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: alloca for V.4?
Message-ID: <15990@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 23 Oct 90 06:27:11 GMT
References: <2064@sixhub.UUCP> <1457@gandalf.littlei.UUCP> <PCG.90Oct22214423@athene.cs.aber.ac.uk>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <PCG.90Oct22214423@athene.cs.aber.ac.uk> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
>alloca() is in SVR4, but in a place that is as improbable as -lPW in
>V.3.2; I seem to remember somebody saying it is in -lucb.

I really recommend that people who are looking for things like alloca()
take the time to run something like

	nm -ehr /lib/*.a /usr/lib/*.a | fgrep extern > allsyms.txt

when they install or move to a new system.  It saves so much time.

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