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In article <2121@transfer.stratus.com> dan@quiensabe.az.stratus.com  
(Dan Danz) writes:
> In article <1992Apr8.183539.1868@talus.com> ajamison@talus.com  
(Alex  
> Senkevitch) writes:
> > In article <1992Apr7.084848.29747@reswi.en.open.de> 
> > ralf@reswi.en.open.de (Ralf E. Stranzenbach) writes:
> > > the following code fragment did _not_ compile properly:
> > > 	void some_function (char * s)
> > > 	{
> > > 		char * d;
> > > 		d = strcpy (alloca (strlen (s) + 1), s);
> > > 		printf ("%s copied as %s\n", s, d);
> > > 	}
> > try this:
> > void some_function(char *s) {
> > 	char *d;
> > 	strcpy((d=(char*)malloc(strlen(s)+1)),s);
> > 	printf("%s copied as %s\n", s, d);
> > }
> 
> I suspect that Ralf's original problem has to do with both the  
compiler  
> AND alloca trying to anipulate the stack pointer to create
> temporary space on the stack. This is one of the things that makes  
alloca  
> a difficult function to implement. Try it by doing the alloca call  
first
> and then do the strcpy into d as a separate line of code.

As a marginal note: The code above (with alloca) works without  
problems on gcc-2.0(i386). Something has been changed ? And it  
_should_ work.... (allocating temporary strings).

	- ralf

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