changing the console; alloca missing from 9021?

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In article <1990Aug3.170532.11038 at ibmpa> jsalter at slo.UUCP (James Salter) writes:
>
>One of the mysteries of AIXv3.1 is the following:
>
>	To access the alloca() function, you need to add the following
>	line to the beginning of your SOURCE code:
>
>		#pragma alloca
>
>	This will make the alloca() routine available for use.


	Jim, you sound like this is cruel & unusual.  I personally think
	if you use alloca, you get what you deserve (unportable code).

	But we should discourage it.  And the compiler usually needs to
	help anyway...  I don't consider #pragma alloca cruel or unusual
	at all.  Let's make people think about it before they use it
	(heck, C went ~15 years without it anyway).

		Craig
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