#pragma alloca (was Re: nits (gethostbyaddr(), alloca()))

[jim frost]

jsalter at slo.awdpa.ibm.com writes:
>>|> 	One more time....  alloca is defined by placing a 
>>|> #pragma alloca 

>>Is there any way of declaring the pragma from the command line?

>No.  Not at this time.  Maybe sometime in the future.  Everyone else
>on AIXv3 has to go through the same thing, so don't be too concerned
>about it.

The thing that's a bitch is that the #pragma must be before any code.
Given the way alloca is coded by the compiler this seems a pretty
silly restriction -- it could easily have been done anywhere outside
of a function declaration.

>jim/jsalter  IBM AWD, Palo Alto  T465/(415)855-4427   VNET: JSALTER at AUSVMQ

Jim -- I got mail from you regarding xloadimage but could not get a
return message through.  In short, you're using an old version (1.03)
and would do well to pick up 1.06 from expo.lcs.mit.edu.

jim frost
saber software
jimf at saber.com