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Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.uucp
Wed Jun 8 03:02:46 AEST 1988
> ... Is alloca really such a problem across differing architectures?
Yes; there are architectures on which it is very difficult to implement
efficiently. Stallman appears to have a mild case of the "all the world's
a VAX" syndrome: he cares about portability only when it doesn't get in
his way.
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