scs@adam.mit.edu (Steve Summit) (11/10/90)
In article <1990Nov7.234315.15508@athena.mit.edu> I wrote: >Correction: "If you just want the pointer to be around during the >function and you want the program to be unportable..." [use alloca] In article <3729@skye.ed.ac.uk> richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes: >Where unportable means "portable to an extremely large class of >machines and compilers". Portability is always a compromise. You >have the choice of rejecting machines or compilers with such serious >deficiencies as making alloca() impossible. Not everyone views such machines and compilers as deficient, let alone seriously so. Followups to alt.religion.computers. Steve Summit scs@adam.mit.edu