Storage allocators
John Quarterman
jsq at ut-sally.UUCP
Mon Aug 5 04:16:43 AEST 1985
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 85 17:37:19 EDT
From: Doug Gwyn <gwyn at BRL.ARPA>
To: arnold%gatech.uucp at BRL-TGR.ARPA
Cc: std-unix at UT-SALLY.ARPA, std-c%cbosgd.uucp at BRL-TGR.ARPA
Subject: Re: alloca()
No! It is not always possible to implement alloca(). Neither Gould
nor I could make it work on UTX-32. We very definitely do not need
this sort of critter in any standards!
(It also adds no functionality and encourages sloppy coding practice.)
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