Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: alloca for V.4? Message-ID: <2186@sixhub.UUCP> Date: 29 Oct 90 02:28:48 GMT References: <2064@sixhub.UUCP> <1457@gandalf.littlei.UUCP> <15990@bfmny0.BFM.COM> Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY Lines: 19 In article <15990@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes: | 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. Yes, then you can post the request for alloca() just as I did. It turns out to be in /usr/ucblib, not my choice for standard location of the year. You get somewhere by doing this for all the libraries in /lib and /usr, but I think you still miss the stuff in some of the shared ones. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me