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- From: wouk@alumni.cs.colorado.edu (Arthur Wouk)
- Subject: Re: Lack of libPW.a module
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.163710.20297@colorado.edu>
- Summary: question re:alloca where to put it?
- Keywords: libPW PW alloca xmalloc
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <1992Aug22.004946.20370@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> <1992Aug25.235036.28469@colnet.cmhnet.org>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:37:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug25.235036.28469@colnet.cmhnet.org> res@colnet.cmhnet.org (Rob Stampfli) writes:
- >Here is a version of alloca that I snarfed off the net a few years ago.
- >I like it because it is specific to the 3B1 and works quite efficiently,
- >although it looks to me like it sometimes (when the size is a multiple
- >of 4) allocates more memory then needed.
- >
- ...
-
- is it safe to put a permanent copy of alloca into libPW.a and just let
- it be found there, or should one have it available to be added into
- compiles as needed?
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- arthur wouk
- internet: wouk@alumni.cs.colorado.edu
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