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From: wescott@Columbia.NCR.COM (Mike Wescott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Latest RCS and gnudiff
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.124251.16346@nncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 13 Mar 91 17:42:51 GMT
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In article <1991Mar11.153710.15246@holos0.uucp> lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed) writes:
> In article <1991Mar8.205343.18084@seachg.uucp> jalsop@seachg.UUCP (John Alsop) writes:
> Don't use -O2 with any Gnu
> stuff--use -O1.  High optimization breaks alloca on the Tower, and the Gnu
> folks *love* alloca.

Use Doug Gwyn's alloca package or add -W2,-a,-a to CFLAGS for just those
files that call alloca.

	
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	-Mike Wescott
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