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From: vandys@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Andrew Valencia(Seattle))
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Implementation of alloca() ?
Message-ID: <10770010@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Dec 88 17:28:10 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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/ hpcupt1:comp.unix.microport / mdm@cocktrice.UUCP (Mike Mitchell) /  9:03 am  Dec 22, 1988 /
>Does any one have an implementation of alloca() which will allocate
>room on the stack and free it upon the return from a routine?

	The GNU Awk (gawk) distribution includes an assembly implementation
for the 386.  Conversion to 286 is left as an excercise for the reader :->.

					Andy