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- From: nsysdbj@straylight.acs.ncsu.edu (David Joyner)
- Subject: Re: TeX3.14
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.192741.23638@ncsu.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:27:41 GMT
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- Malte Uhl (malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de) wrote:
- :
- : Whenever alloca is needed, add as the *first* line in that file
- : #pragma alloca
- : and that's it.
- :
-
- Buried somewhere deep in the bowels of Info Explorer it also says that
- this is the same as compiling with the -ma switch. It's sometimes
- easier to do this than hack up the code.
-
- : Concerning TeX: I installed it last week 'out of the box'.
- : In fact, I used gcc.
- :
- : Malte
-
- If you build TeX with an incantation of xlc, make sure that you don't
- compile tex2.c with the -O switch. It brings out some bug in the
- optimizer and initex will fail mysteriously when dumping bases.
-
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