Re: Legal alloca?

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From: Stan Ryckman
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 18:22

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In article <4l881b$762@solutions.solon.com>,
Konrad Schwarz <schwarz@hermi.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>In article <4l33l8$7of@solutions.solon.com>, mfg@ee.edinburgh.ac.uk (Michael F Gordon) writes:
>
>|> So, just how non-portable and horrible is [alloca]?

[...]

>Venix (a PDP-11 Unix) doesn't have it,

Hmmm.  Is there more than one Venix?  The one I've used runs on
Intel machines.  Somebody, I think Novell (?) acquired them.

The Intel-based Venix doesn't have alloca() anyway.

Cheers,
Stan.
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Stan Ryckman  (stanr@tiac.net)

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