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Re: Legal alloca?

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From: Mike Lee
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 14:29
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My complaint with alloca() is more fundamental.  As a lowly programmer,
I spend a lot of time moving chunks of code around between functions.
Chunks of code containing alloca() present a special problem: if I move
the chunk into a subroutine, I cannot use the objects created by
alloca() in the caller, since they will die when the subroutine dies.
As time goes by and the function grows from enhancements and bug fixes,
this inability to move some chunks out makes the function larger and
less readable than it needs to be.

      mikey
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Subject: Re: Legal alloca?
Date: 19 Apr 1996 09:29:34 -0500
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