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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] useful language extension, or no?
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:59:35 +0000
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arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote:
> g=bffffc7c

Well, yeah, it obviously has to be allocated on either the stack or
the heap.  Heap allocation requires cleanup a la C++ destructor
while the stack cleanup is automatic.  Note that GNU seems to like
to use alloca also, perhaps for a similar reason.