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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: alloca for V.4?
Message-ID: <2124@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 90 00:48:24 GMT
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In article <48846@bigtex.cactus.org> james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen) writes:

| alloca(3c) is well documented and widely used.  The "portable"
| alternatives are very poor.  It would seem a major compatibility hole,
| so much so that it ought to be fixed.

  It *is* fixed, I found it in the BSD library after finally looking
enough places.
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