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  1. Path: god.bel.alcatel.be!nlev00!barnhoorn
  2. From: barnhoorn@nlev00 ()
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
  4. Subject: Re: alloca() on Amiga?
  5. Date: 19 Apr 1996 06:14:32 GMT
  6. Organization: Alcatel Bell
  7. Distribution: world
  8. Message-ID: <4l7b08$p27@btmpjg.god.bel.alcatel.be>
  9. References: <2720tdg60.alamito@marketgraph.xs4all.nl> <4k1oce$lub@blackice.winternet.com> <DpE7Ip.7or@unx.sas.com> <393brdv60.alamito@marketgraph.xs4all.nl> <4l59du$bdo@enterprise.netserv.chula.ac.th> <317622F2.794BDF32@sh.bel.alcatel.be>
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  15. In article <317622F2.794BDF32@sh.bel.alcatel.be>, Evert de Vos <vosev@sh.bel.alcatel.be> writes:
  16. >
  17. >Why not just declare local variables for this purpose?
  18. >
  19. because then you need to know before compiling your program,
  20. how much memory you want to allocate from stack. When this
  21. amount of memory is different upon run-time, you might want
  22. to use alloca(), I guess.
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  26. Jaco Barnhoorn               barnie@xs4all.nl
  27. Software Test Engineer       barnhoorn%nlev00@btmv56.se.bel.alcatel.be
  28. Alcatel Telecom Systems
  29. Rijswijk, The Netherlands
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