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From: jsalter@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com
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Subject: Re: getting cc to recognize alloca
Message-ID: <1991Feb25.015243.29435@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com>
Date: 25 Feb 91 01:52:43 GMT
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In article<1991Feb24.065504.2044@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>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?

There is no compiler flag as of this time.  This is documented in the
/usr/lpp/bos/bsdport document, I believe.

>Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870

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