On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote: > From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@xxxxxxxxxx> > > How come we got along with this not very portable construct for so long? > Probably because the array sizes were computed from the results of > strlen() of string constants. Maybe because it isn't not so unportable anymore? I doubt that compilers that don't know about automatic arrays would be smart enough to notice the variable was actually a constant due to the strlen() of a constant string and just do like if there wasn't any variable for the array size. > Anyway, a follow-up patch will make the > lengths really non-constant. Fair enough. Nicolas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
