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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: v18i002:  Fido/Usenet gateway, Part01/05
Message-ID: <1204@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 89 06:57:48 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>/Have you looked in /lib/libPW.a?
>
>alloca is definitely not available in sys v

The source to an "alloca" implementation for the WE32K chip definitely
*is* available on the System V Release 3.0 source tape.  I assume an
assembled version of that code is available in the "libPW" library in
the System V Release 3.0 binary distribution for the 3B2.  I can't speak
for other S5R3 releases (e.g., the 80386 version, or any ports of it to
other architectures, but "alloca" has been in S5 (and S3, and...  and
PWB/UNIX 1.0) since time immemorial.