inkey$, noecho, and other impossibles

[Peter Desnoyers]

In article <9338 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <15396 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>>Possibly.  In fact, malloc() might be one (`too machine dependent').
>
I don't think malloc is a problem on most reasonable machines. Brk and
sbrk, however, are bad gotchas. If you can allocate memory in any way,
you can probably allocate blocks in a way that allows you to construct
malloc. However, you may not be able to paste the allocated blocks
together to get sbrk semantics.

				Peter Desnoyers