G'day Ali,

 BS> Thanks for your reply :-) Just found the man page, quite interesting.

 AC> :) Yes it's like a "secret function". I didn't know that it exists
 AC> until I had problems compiling an application which was using alloca().

Okay :-)

If I had my own memory function I could use alloca, and malloc for rest
platforms.. But there would anyway be alot of code for platforms which
doesn't have alloca.. (freeing code)

If I wrote proporitarian programs it wouldn't be a problem..

Regards,
Bo

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