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From: andreess@mrlaxs.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX 3.1 and alloca?
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Date: 5 Apr 91 18:34:23 GMT
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In article <17121@sunquest.UUCP> jew@rs6000.sunquest.com writes:
>Trying to compile Perl 4.000 under AIX 3.1.  alloca is in the manual and
>supposed to be available via a cc command line switch.  The switch is not
>mentioned in the cc manual however.  I tried using alloca.c from emacs to
>no avail (xmalloc undefined).  I think someone has already done this...

FAQ #369c4:  To use alloca within a C source file, include the line
'#pragma alloca' at the top of your file.

Marc

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