Subj : Re: General Protection Fault
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Todd Burch
Date : Sun Jan 23 2005 02:41 pm


Bob Gonder <notbg@notmindspring.invalid> wrote:

>No,  Local variables are required for reentrancy.
>It's globals you don't want to be using in reentrant functions.
>Every time you enter a function, new local variables are created on
>the stack, and destroyed when the function returns.
>
>>Would a better technique be to dynamically aquire some working storage?  
>
>Only if the size is unkown, or large, or needs to be returned to the
>caller.
>
>


Thanks for the clarification Bob.  I'm used to programming in
assembly (IBM Mainframes) and the C/C++ programming model is new to me.

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