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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: libpw.a
Message-ID: <8184@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 10 Apr 89 03:38:30 GMT
References: <157@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <10013@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
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In article <10013@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:

>Please don't use libPW.a for anything other than maintenance of
>existing products until they can be converted to use standard C
>library routines.

>libPW.a is utterly obsolete (and generally poorly designed and
>coded).

Does this mean that programmers shouldn't use alloca() or that a
well designed and coded version should be put in the standard
library?

Les Mikesell