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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Using alloca
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Date: 7 Mar 90 15:19:44 GMT
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In article <18451@shamash.cdc.com> mak@easyaspi.udev.cdc.com (marlys a kohnke x2793) writes:
>I would like to use alloca to allocate memory on the stack.  The man page
>says alloca is machine dependent and its use is discouraged.  Does alloca
>work with mips and are there any potential problems with its use?

The about-to-be-released 2.10 compilers include alloca.  Include <alloca.h>
and you get a machine-dependent _builtin_alloca; don't, and you get a
portable emulation thereof.
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