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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ,alloc/sbrk (was: inkey$, noecho, and other impossibles)
Message-ID: <9343@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 12 Jan 89 05:11:27 GMT
References: <19@xenlink.UUCP> <225800106@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <310@twwells.uucp> <84629@sun.uucp> <15396@mimsy.UUCP> <9338@smoke.BRL.MIL> <23757@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <23757@apple.Apple.COM> desnoyer@Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers) writes:
>However, you may not be able to paste the allocated blocks
>together to get sbrk semantics.

Which is why neither the SVID nor ANSI C attempts to standardize sbrk().