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- From: mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: Need alloca which allocates storage IN the stack frame (Ultrix)
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 14:47:22 GMT
- Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc.
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- > I am still looking for an (assembly) version of alloca() which
- > does manipulate the stack to allocate storage.
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- This is a language issue that's better flame-broiled in comp.lang.c,
- but reasonable arguments can be made that code using alloca() is broken,
- and should be fixed. Finding a version of alloca() is a temporary fix for
- the bug, but writing code that doesn't depend on it is a better one.
-
- mjr.
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