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alloca on sparc

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From: Marty Leisner x71348
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1993 15:55
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Can someone give me a dump on why
the sun alloca.h header has 
# define alloca(x) __builtin_alloca(x)

Also, is there any difference with alloca between
gcc 1.x and 2.x?


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