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From: avery@netcom.UUCP (Avery Colter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: alloca() portability
Keywords: portability, alloca
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Date: 10 Nov 90 21:54:16 GMT
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russ@groucho.ucar.edu (Russ Rew) writes:

>What common platforms do not provide an alloca or cannot use Doug Gwyn's
>alloca because they don't use a procedure stack?  In other words, if we
>decide to use alloca despite the warnings about its portability, what
>platforms are we precluding?

Well, ORCA/C is supposedly ANSI rated, and there is no alloca command
that I can see.

There is the function malloc, and a proviso that says that a coding of
the old calloc command will in ORCA/C be macroed into malloc.

What exactly were the syntax, parameters, and usage of this alloca?

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