inkey$, noecho, and other impossibles

[Chris Torek]

-In article <15396 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
->Possibly.  In fact, malloc() might be one (`too machine dependent').

In article <9338 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
-malloc() can be implemented on all known systems for which a C
-implementation is otherwise feasible.  It might not be able to
-grow the process allocation at run time, but it can certainly
-dole out parcels from a pool that was allocated at link time.

Actually, I was thinking about machines in which different types
of objects must come from different address spaces (e.g., all
`pointer' objects should be in the range 0x70000000..0x7c000000).
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