Re: alloca for TC 2.0 : Where and How ?

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From: Kevin Gallagher
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 1990 06:15

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In article <11798@spool.cs.wisc.edu> aboulene@cheddar.cs.wisc.edu (Nagi M. Aboulenein) writes:

>I am trying to get the MS-DOS version of the parser generator bison to work
>under Turbo C 2.0, but I need a routine called alloca. Does anyone know where
>and how I can get a hold of that routine ?  

The function alloca is found in BSD Unix.  The BSD man page states it
allocates the specified number of bytes of space in the stack frame of the
caller, which is released upon exit.  Later on it gives the following warning:
"alloca is machine dependent, its use is discouraged."

No MS-DOS C compiler I am aware of supports alloca.  So, you have two choices:
roll your own version of alloca OR change the bison code to get its temporary
memory allocations another way.  
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Subject: Re: alloca for TC 2.0 : Where and How ?
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Date: 26 Nov 90 06:15:43 GMT
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