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Article #75627Re: Why alloca()?
From: Ozan Yigit
Date: Tue, 22 May 1990 14:15
Date: Tue, 22 May 1990 14:15
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In article <1793@proa.SV.DG.COM> gary@proa.SV.DG.COM () writes: >... Some vendors, >however, seem to make a virtue of forcing the user to do all the hard work. >In fact, as you point out later, this becomes nearly impossible with >longjumps. I do not know what you mean by "nearly impossible" but it is trivially obvious (to quote your signature) that you can avoid ALL the hard work (for example) by using a garbage collector with your memory management at the appropriate level. Longjumps themselves are not a problem if used in conjunctions with well thought-out mechanisms for memory management. oz -- First learn your horn and all the theory. Internet: oz@nexus.yorku.ca Next develop a style. Then forget all that uucp: utzoo/utai!yunexus!oz and just play. Charlie Parker [?] York U. CCS: (416) 736 5257
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,57cdf436494e0ba9 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-05-22 08:59:04 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!oz From: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Why alloca()? Message-ID: <11119@yunexus.UUCP> Date: 22 May 90 14:15:28 GMT References: <1990May19.044239.16031@egsner.cirr.com> <1990May21.133554.12832@talos.pm.com> <1793@proa.SV.DG.COM> Reply-To: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) Organization: York U. Communications Research & Development Lines: 17 Posted: Tue May 22 15:15:28 1990