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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
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To: mejm2 AT hermes DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk (Michael Meeks), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 16:18:17 +0000
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Subject: Re: memory allocation: malloc vs. calloc
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mejm2 AT hermes DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk (Michael Meeks) wrote:
> 	I'm lost here, which is the alloc that gets temp. memory from the
> stack, and saves fragmentation ? and is there a variant of that that zeros
> the memory ?
The function is alloca(). Be careful the stack doesn't grow when you need more 
like the heap. I don't remmember if exist a variant to fill it with zeros but 
you can make a memset after the alloca. Be careful alloca isn't a function.

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