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From: joe@proto.COM (Joe Huffman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: alloca for TC 2.0 : Where and How ?
Summary: Zortech's next release will have alloca().
Keywords: alloca, bison, where
Message-ID: <1470@proto.COM>
Date: 27 Nov 90 09:49:27 GMT
References: <126@metapyr.UUCP> <0093FFFD.51B399C0@router.jhuapl.edu> <1292@digi.lonestar.org>
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Organization: Prototronics; Sandpoint, Idaho
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In article <1292@digi.lonestar.org>, kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher) writes:
> No MS-DOS C compiler I am aware of supports alloca.  So, you have two choices:
> roll your own version of alloca OR change the bison code to get its temporary
> memory allocations another way.  

The next release of Zortech C/C++ will have alloca().  It required special
support from the compiler so we (Walter actually) didn't put it in until
it looked like it would be a 'big deal' if we didn't have it for the 
UNIX version of the compiler.  It will now be in all versions.

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