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Date:      Sat, 14 Jun 2003 13:29:02 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: unbreaking alloca
Message-ID:  <20030614202902.GA95990@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030614200407.GA31706@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
References:  <xzp1xxw65o7.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030614200407.GA31706@HAL9000.homeunix.com>

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On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 01:04:07PM -0700, David Schultz wrote:
> Then again, there's virtually no software out there that uses
> alloca(), so if you have your heart set on it, I can hardly object
> to a warning that I never see.

All the GNU tools -- gcc, binutils, gdb, grep assumes it exists.  There
are alot of other things in ports that uses it.  I think your statement
isn't fully substantiated.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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