scope of malloc

[Richard Tobin]

In article <1990Nov7.234315.15508 at athena.mit.edu> scs at adam.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes:
 [alloca]

>Correction: "If you just want the pointer to be around during the
>function and you want the program to be unportable..."

Where unportable means "portable to an extremely large class of
machines and compilers".  Portability is always a compromise.  You
have the choice of rejecting machines or compilers with such serious
deficiencies as making alloca() impossible.

-- Richard
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