[comp.lang.forth] C memory allocation

wmb@MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM (Mitch Bradley) (06/11/90)

> (Damfino why C has so many forms of 'alloc'.  Enlightenment please?)

Some reasons:
	1) history
	2) C library functions are not arbitrarily constrained to be
	   the "most primitive possible" functions.
	3) Different alignment requirements for different data types.

Damfino why Forth has so many different kinds of strings.  Don't answer
that; it was a rhetorical question.

Mitch