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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: scope of malloc
Message-ID: <3755@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 14 Nov 90 14:13:01 GMT
References: <1990Nov07.134942.7355@virtech.uucp> <1990Nov7.234315.15508@athena.mit.edu> <3729@skye.ed.ac.uk> <14413@smoke.brl.mil> <2182@kraftbus.opal.cs.tu-berlin.de> <12559@ganymede.inmos.co.uk>
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In article <12559@ganymede.inmos.co.uk> conor@inmos.co.uk (Conor O'Neill) writes:
>Some customers would prefer a faster C system _without_ alloca than
>a slower C system _with_ alloca.

They'd both be happy if the system were only slower when you actually
used alloca().  This may be possible on a function-by-function basis.

-- Richard
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