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- Path: chang.unx.sas.com!walker
- From: walker@chang.unx.sas.com (Doug Walker)
- Subject: Re: alloca() on Amiga?
- Sender: news@unx.sas.com (Noter of Newsworthy Events)
- Message-ID: <DpE7Ip.7or@unx.sas.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 14:13:37 GMT
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- References: <2720tdg60.alamito@marketgraph.xs4all.nl> <4k1oce$lub@blackice.winternet.com>
- Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
- Keywords: alloca
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- In article <4k1oce$lub@blackice.winternet.com>,
- Anthony Pang <apang@winternet.com> wrote:
- >In article <2720tdg60.alamito@marketgraph.xs4all.nl>,
- >Ruud van Gaal <rvg@marketgraph.xs4all.nl> wrote:
- >>Is there a nice way to get a working alloca() function for the Amiga?
- >>It is present on all PC and Unix C implementations, but not on the Amiga.
- >>(it allocates mem from the stack, automatically freeing it upon return from
- >>subroutine).
- >
- >GCC and SAS have alloca(). I think DICE has it too.
-
- This is not correct. SAS/C does not supply an alloca() function.
- Third parties may have been able to implement one, but it's not
- a trivial operation.
-
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- *|_o_o|\\ Doug Walker walker@unx.sas.com
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- | o |// Any opinions are mine, not those of SAS Institute, Inc.
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