malloc impossible? (was: inkey$, noecho, and other impossibles)

[Stephen J. Friedl]

> One can imagine a machine with different spaces for each different
> intrinstic data type, where malloc() has to select from one of 8
> or 16 possibilities.  Of course, since malloc() gets only one argument,
> it has no way to decide which address space to use.

Wow. Wouldn't structs be *really* interesting on a machine like this?

     Steve

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