text: /* -*- mode: c -*-
   * $Id$
   * http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/
   *
   * this program is modified from:
   *   http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/interps/pap.html
   * Timing Trials, or, the Trials of Timing: Experiments with Scripting
   * and User-Interface Languages</a> by Brian W. Kernighan and
   * Christopher J. Van Wyk.
   *
   * I added free() to deallocate memory.
   */
  
  #include <stdio.h>
  #include <stdlib.h>
  
  int
  main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
      int i, n = ((argc == 2) ? atoi(argv[1]) : 1);
      int *y = (int *) calloc(n, sizeof(int));
      for (i=0; i < n; i++)
        y[i] = i*i;
      printf("%d\n", y[n-1]);
      return(0);
  }
  
  