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From: jeffj@mcs213h.cs.umr.edu (Jeff Jenness)
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Subject: Re: alloca for TC 2.0 : Where and How ?
Keywords: alloca, bison, where
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Date: 26 Nov 90 22:40:28 GMT
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In article <1292@digi.lonestar.org> kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher) writes:
>In article <11798@spool.cs.wisc.edu> aboulene@cheddar.cs.wisc.edu (Nagi M. Aboulenein) writes:
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>>I am trying to get the MS-DOS version of the parser generator bison to work
>>under Turbo C 2.0, but I need a routine called alloca. Does anyone know where
>>and how I can get a hold of that routine ?  
>
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>No MS-DOS C compiler I am aware of supports alloca.  So, you have two choices:

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The Quick C compiler has the alloca function in the library and
since the library for Quick C and Microsoft C are the same then I assume
that the Microsoft C 5.1 (6.0?) also has this function.  Other of the 
DOS C compilers may also include this feature since they do attempt to
provide rather robust libraries.  Unfortunately, the Turbo C compiler
does not provide this function.  BTW, I did see an alloca function come
across the news sometime back when this same question was asked.  If 
others are interested I will see if I can dig up the author and/or the
source for the function.  The source was for the Turbo C compiler.


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Jeff Jenness
University of Missouri - Rolla
jeffj@cs.umr.edu