nvt9001@belvoir-emh3.army.mil (DoN Nichols) (05/08/89)
Watching all the complaints about the programmer's workbench, and how it was useless, and to be avoided at all costs, prodded my curiosity into action, and I checked. Sure enough, there in /lib was libPW.a. Yes, alloca was there. So was a lot of other stuff. However, there was no documentation in or with the system in question. Also, there was none in any of the books which I examined from my collection. The system in question wasn't the one from which I am posting, but an antique port of V7 by UniSoft. Realizing that the use of this library should be avoided in all programs which pretend to be portable, these routines may still be of use locally. WHERE can I find some documentation on what the routines were intended to do, and what the calling conventions are? (Warnings about known bugs would be helpful too.) Please main responses directly to me: nvt9001@belvior-emh3.army.mil If anyone else is as crazy as I, and also wants this info, I'll try to forward a summary of responses. (If the requests exceed four, or I can't make the local mailer accept enough of the addresses, I'll post a summary to this newsgroup.) Thanks in advance Donald Nichols (DoN.) Disclaimer: My employer probably doesn't want to admit that *I* exist, let alone being willing to let me speak for it's interests.