Implementation of alloca() ?

[Eric Schnoebelen]

In article <10770010 at hpcupt1.HP.COM> vandys at hpcupt1.HP.COM (Andrew Valencia(Seattle)) writes:
>/ hpcupt1:comp.unix.microport / mdm at cocktrice.UUCP (Mike Mitchell) /  9:03 am  Dec 22, 1988 /
>>Does any one have an implementation of alloca() which will allocate
>>room on the stack and free it upon the return from a routine?
>
>	The GNU Awk (gawk) distribution includes an assembly implementation
>for the 386.  Conversion to 286 is left as an excercise for the reader :->.
>
>					Andy

	Try linking in libPW from /lib/{small|large}.  It includes a
working alloca.  I have used it with gnu make, gnu diff, etc.

	Eric.


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