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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Duff's device
Message-ID: <8469@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 9 Sep 88 06:52:43 GMT
References: <32941@cca.CCA.COM> <718@proxftl.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <718@proxftl.UUCP> bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>I also don't know of any compiler that fails to allocate space in
>this situation.  Does anyone know of any?

All the C compilers I know about allocate the space upon function
entry, not upon block entry.