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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: alloca (was: libpw.a)
Message-ID: <10090@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 21 Apr 89 17:08:41 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
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In article <15945@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>In article <1883@thor.acc.stolaf.edu> mike@mike@stolaf.edu writes:
>>To repeat: alloca is EVIL.
>It doesn't have to be.

You appear to have missed the previous discussion.
alloca() simply cannot be reasonably provided in some C environments.
If your application depends on alloca(), you have limited its portability.
There is no situation I know of when use of alloca() is necessary.