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From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: mod.std.unix
Subject: Re: Storage allocators
Message-ID: <2579@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 14:16:43 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug  4 14:16:43 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 5-Aug-85 17:52:06 EDT
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
Lines: 21
Keywords: stack allocation, standardizing undocumented features
Approved: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP

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Date:     Fri, 2 Aug 85 17:37:19 EDT
From: Doug Gwyn <gwyn@BRL.ARPA>
To: arnold%gatech.uucp@BRL-TGR.ARPA
Cc: std-unix@UT-SALLY.ARPA, std-c%cbosgd.uucp@BRL-TGR.ARPA
Subject:  Re: alloca()

No!  It is not always possible to implement alloca().  Neither Gould
nor I could make it work on UTX-32.  We very definitely do not need
this sort of critter in any standards!

(It also adds no functionality and encourages sloppy coding practice.)

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