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[Henry Spencer]

> ... Is alloca really such a problem across differing architectures?

Yes; there are architectures on which it is very difficult to implement
efficiently.  Stallman appears to have a mild case of the "all the world's
a VAX" syndrome:  he cares about portability only when it doesn't get in
his way.
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