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From: eric@egsner.UUCP (Eric Schnoebelen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Implementation of alloca() ?
Message-ID: <125@egsner.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 88 14:08:16 GMT
References: <357@cocktrice.UUCP> <10770010@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Reply-To: eric@egsner.UUCP (Eric Schnoebelen)
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In article <10770010@hpcupt1.HP.COM> vandys@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Andrew Valencia(Seattle)) writes:
>/ 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

	Try linking in libPW from /lib/{small|large}.  It includes a
working alloca.  I have used it with gnu make, gnu diff, etc.

	Eric.


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