scope of malloc

[Richard Tobin]

In article <12559 at ganymede.inmos.co.uk> conor at inmos.co.uk (Conor O'Neill) writes:
>Some customers would prefer a faster C system _without_ alloca than
>a slower C system _with_ alloca.

They'd both be happy if the system were only slower when you actually
used alloca().  This may be possible on a function-by-function basis.

-- Richard
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