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<<On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:54:21 -0700 (PDT), Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> said:

>   We cannot use c99 on amd64 either due to lack of alloca().  libc:strptime()
>   uses alloca() and alloca is impossible to implement as a callable function
>   on amd64.  It has to be a compiler builtin.  Note that the bigger problem
>   is that libc is not c99 clean internally.

I don't consider this a problem.  Fundamentally, the C Standard
Library may (and invariably does) contain things which cannot be
implemented in Standard C.  That's (part of) why there is a Standard
Library.

-GAWollman