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Subject: Re: stack memory allocation - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 17-Jul-83 07:13:36 EDT
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alloca() is a PWBism, and was supplied with PWB/UNIX 1.0 and the USG UNIX
releases (including System III and System V), and is used by the SCCS code,
among other clients.  It seems to have crossed the blood-brain barrier and
passed into Berkeley UNIX, along with so many other things...

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,mcnc,we13,brl-bmd,allegra}!rlgvax!guy