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From: daveb@shrew.UUCP (Dave Brower)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: gnu design question
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Date: Sun, 5-Jan-86 14:58:40 EST
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Summary: alloca and gnu portability

[ I expect to be corrected ]

GNU is not, as far as I can see, intended to be really portable to
things like BSD, SV, SV.2, etc., on different machines.  Since GNU
is intended to be a complete *NIX replacement, rms and the team
of hackers can feel free to assume the presence of alloca() on
every machine in the universe.   They are, after all, designing
the universe.

It just happens that GNU emacs is available before the rest of the system,
and if you can use it, great.

I've been contemplating the conditional/macro apprach to alloca on
different machines, since you really do want to use it on a machine
that will support it.

-dB