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Re: alloca (was: makefile for gnu make on SGI)

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From: Steve Bacher
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:39
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In article <19921217111545SEB1525@MVS.draper.com>, I wrote:

>I weighed grabbing alloca.c out of the gcc or emacs distribution.  But
>this alloca requires a function xmalloc() to be defined.  Why not just
>make alloca (and xmalloc) part of gnu make?

It turned out that there already was an xmalloc() in gnu make,
in misc.c.  So using the emacs alloca.c (as is) worked for
building gnu make on SGI.

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Steve Bacher (Batchman)                 Draper Laboratory
Internet: seb@draper.com                Cambridge, MA, USA
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