libpw.a

[Leslie Mikesell]

In article <10013 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:

>Please don't use libPW.a for anything other than maintenance of
>existing products until they can be converted to use standard C
>library routines.

>libPW.a is utterly obsolete (and generally poorly designed and
>coded).

Does this mean that programmers shouldn't use alloca() or that a
well designed and coded version should be put in the standard
library?

Les Mikesell