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Date:      Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:38:58 -0400
From:      Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
To:        sef@Kithrup.COM
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: variable sized arrays and gcc
Message-ID:  <199708101838.OAA09609@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199708101742.KAA17395@kithrup.com> (message from Sean Eric Fagan on Sun, 10 Aug 1997 10:42:38 -0700)

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> alloca() was the reason gcc added VLA's in the first place, actually.  And
> the code is the same.

But VLA's are easier to read.  And clean up on exit, instead of Gwyn's
implementation, which cleans up on next alloca() call.

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