Storage allocators

[John Quarterman]

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Date: Mon, 5 Aug 85 10:04:43 edt
From: Arnold Robbins <gatech!arnold>
To: gwyn at brl.arpa
Subject: Re: alloca()
Cc: cbosgd!std-c, ut-sally!std-unix

Well, I just sort of liked the idea of using storage on the stack. It
is really nice for dynamic arrays.  I'll agree that it can lead to poor
coding practices.  The Gould must have a very interesting architecture
if alloca wouldn't work on it.

Arnold

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