Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 7/7/83; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: stack memory allocation - (nf) Message-ID: <841@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 17-Jul-83 07:13:36 EDT Article-I.D.: rlgvax.841 Posted: Sun Jul 17 07:13:36 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 17-Jul-83 17:20:59 EDT References: <2404@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 7 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