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From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman)
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Subject: Re: Storage allocators
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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 85 11:38:32 edt
From: seismo!allegra!phri!roy (Roy Smith)
To: ut-sally!std-unix
Subject: Storage allocation
Cc: roy

	I'm not sure if it is really germane to the issue at hand, but I
recently (yesterday) submitted to mod.sources a little package to handle
run time memory allocation for multi-dimensional arrays.  You might want to
take a look at it.

	Is it reasonable to include such a functionality in a Unix
standard?  I don't know if memory allocators should be considered part of
the C language, or part of the Unix OS, but given the fuss that went on
recently (in net.unix-wizards?) about the issue, it seems that it should be
addressed somewhere.  Of course, my implementation isn't necessarily the
best one (or even a good one), but I think the idea is sound.

Roy Smith 
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016

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