alloca (was: Re: scope of malloc)

[Steve Summit]

In article <1990Nov7.234315.15508 at athena.mit.edu> I wrote:
>Correction: "If you just want the pointer to be around during the
>function and you want the program to be unportable..." [use alloca]

In article <3729 at skye.ed.ac.uk> richard at aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes:
>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.

Not everyone views such machines and compilers as deficient, let
alone seriously so.

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                                            Steve Summit
                                            scs at adam.mit.edu