Bill Sommerfeld writes:
> There's a version of the latter in the GNU emacs sources; it takes the
> address of an automatic variable to see what more can be freed since the
> last allocation.
> 
> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/emacs/src/alloca.c?root=emacs&view=markup

That's an example of an application hack, not a platform (i.e., a
libc) that implements alloca() via malloc().

Impressively vile example, though.

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