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"Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps-nospam.net> wrote in message
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> Errm, but "alloca" is not a standard C memory mechanism -- even if it is
> available on a number of platforms. And "pragma" in C is almost 100%
> platform/compiler specific...

The "alloca" function falls into the category of a 90% standard function;
although it is not required, nearly all platforms provide it. There are a
number of functions like this in C; the very useful "strdup" function was
not officially part of the standard until 1999.