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From: andreess@mrlaxs.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
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Subject: Re: Where is alloca(3)?
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Date: 17 Jun 91 05:28:19 GMT
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In article <1991Jun17.044433.13319@leland.Stanford.EDU> fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) writes:
>I am curious where is this alloca(3) in AIX?  

From AIXv3.1 /usr/lpp/bos/bsdport:

   7.3.  Alloca

      In order to use alloca() in C code,  you  need  to
      put a #pragma alloca in the C program source.

Marc

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