On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 06:28:41PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > begin Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Stirring up some dust... my 1978 K&R mentions alloc() and > > calloc() but not malloc(). Then I have this 1985 "Advanced > > UNIX - A Programmer's Guide" which does talk about malloc(). > > wow -- my gut reaction was wrong! okay, so there is some kind of basis > for that statement. thanks, rod!
So was mine, apparently. > > btw, is alloc() == alloca()? > IIRC (possibly not), alloc() =~ malloc(). FWIW, alloca() is not and has never been portable. It's not in any standard that I know of: certainly not C or POSIX. -Micah _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
