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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: getting cc to recognize alloca
Summary: awkward
Message-ID: <1991Feb24.065504.2044@ico.isc.com>
Date: 24 Feb 91 06:55:04 GMT
References: <1991Feb23.195712.21940@csn.org> <1991Feb23.221233.27936@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation, Boulder, CO
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andreess@mrlaxs.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) writes:
> englund@tramp.colorado.edu (ENGLUND TODD CHARLES) writes:
> >     Sorry if this is a FAQ, but does anyone know which flags to
> >give cc so that it will recognize calls to alloca.  [...]

> Put '#pragma alloca' in your source file.

But is there an answer for the original question?  Sure, it's only a
one-line (per file) change, but one might like to avoid gratuitous changes
to source files, particularly if there are a lot of them (and if, as seems
likely, missing one will make the resulting program fail).  Is there no
compiler flag?
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
   ...But is it art?


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