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From: eric@egsner.UUCP (Eric Schnoebelen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Implementation of alloca() ?
Message-ID: <126@egsner.UUCP>
Date: 30 Dec 88 19:04:23 GMT
References: <357@cocktrice.UUCP> <10770011@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Reply-To: eric@egsner.UUCP (Eric Schnoebelen)
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In article <10770011@hpcupt1.HP.COM> vandys@hpcupt1.HP.COM
(Andrew Valencia(Seattle)) writes:
->/ hpcupt1:comp.unix.microport / eric@egsner.UUCP (Eric Schnoebelen) 
(thats me!) /  6:08 am  Dec 28, 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?
->
->	Try linking in libPW from /lib/{small|large}.  It includes a
->working alloca.  I have used it with gnu make, gnu diff, etc.
-
-	This is the case for SCO XENIX.  Is it there for Microport?
-I didn't find it in my MS-DOS C manual; did it make an appearance there,
-and if so, where and at what version?
-
-			Thanks...
-			Andy

	Yup, This is true for Microport System V/AT and Microport System
V/386.  I don't think I have ever seen libPW in a MS-DOS C manual, but
Microsoft C 5.x does have alloca().

	Eric


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