Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 13:16:21 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Doug Gale <dgale AT mailexcite DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com, "Renato F. Cantao" <cantao AT ime DOT unicamp DOT br>
Subject: Re: Memory allocation!
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On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Doug Gale wrote:

> Depends on how you are going to use the memory. If it is just scratch memory
> (will be free'd before the function returns) use alloca(). Note that
> this uses stack space for the allocation, but reduces it to a cycle or two.

Since `alloca' uses the stack space, it is generally ill-suited to
large allocations (say, larger than a few KB) because the stack is a
sparce resource: only 256KB by default.