Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!husc6!cca!g-rh From: g-rh@cca.CCA.COM (Richard Harter) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: switch (expression) Message-ID: <30957@cca.CCA.COM> Date: 15 Jul 88 14:50:38 GMT References: <1988Jul12.105547.13268@light.uucp> <755@vsi.UUCP> <59881@sun.uucp> <19876@watmath.waterloo.edu>Reply-To: g-rh@CCA.CCA.COM (Richard Harter) Organization: Computer Corp. of America, Cambridge, MA Lines: 16 In article ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes: >Brk and sbrk are not part of C. They shouldn't even be part >of UNIX. You can't write portable code with them. The concept >of a single linear address space for data and another for subroutine >linkage is not a universal concept. Use Malloc. And, as noted in ~.lang.c by others, if you don't like malloc, and want to write your own, use malloc as your primitive to get space from the system. -- In the fields of Hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die. Richard Harter, SMDS Inc.