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
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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. 


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