alloca() for TurboC

[Stephen C. Trier]

Here's a version of alloca I use.  It's my clone of a version from some
piece of PD software I saw a year or two ago.

        #define alloca(A) ((_SP -= ((A)+1) & 0xFFFE), (void far *)(((unsigned long)_SS << 16) | _SP))

The idea is to subtract the size A from the stack pointer, making sure
it's word-aligned.  (This is the (_SP -= ((A)+1) & 0xFFFE) part.)  Then,
since alloca returns a pointer to the allocated space, the macro must
kludge together a far pointer from the stack segment and stack pointer.

I should add the disclaimer that I'm not entirely sure that this works.
It's my own version of someone else's, but I changed it a bit.  (I don't
remember what the original looked like.)

Hope this helps!

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