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Re: Why alloca()?

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From: Ozan Yigit
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
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From: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Why alloca()?
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Date: 22 May 90 14:15:28 GMT
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Posted: Tue May 22 15:15:28 1990