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- From: SEB1525@MVS.draper.com (Steve Bacher)
- Subject: Re: alloca (was: makefile for gnu make on SGI)
- Message-ID: <19921218143937SEB1525@MVS.draper.com>
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- Organization: Draper Laboratory
- References: <19921217111545SEB1525@MVS.draper.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:39:00 GMT
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- In article <19921217111545SEB1525@MVS.draper.com>, I wrote:
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- >I weighed grabbing alloca.c out of the gcc or emacs distribution. But
- >this alloca requires a function xmalloc() to be defined. Why not just
- >make alloca (and xmalloc) part of gnu make?
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- It turned out that there already was an xmalloc() in gnu make,
- in misc.c. So using the emacs alloca.c (as is) worked for
- building gnu make on SGI.
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- Steve Bacher (Batchman) Draper Laboratory
- Internet: seb@draper.com Cambridge, MA, USA
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