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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: alloca wars
Keywords: alloca memory allocation
Message-ID: <8301@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 3 Aug 88 04:31:33 GMT
References: <3950010@eecs.nwu.edu> <62170@sun.uucp> <62363@sun.uucp> <8293@smoke.ARPA> <19895@cornell.UUCP> <5422@june.cs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <5422@june.cs.washington.edu> pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) writes:
-	foo = alloca( size );
-	:
-	afree( size );
-	return( value );
-Does anybody object to these semantics?

Yes, I object very much.  If you're going to do that, just use
malloc()/free(), which are universally available.