Re: debugfs: dump a sparse file as a new sparse file

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Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 04:46:13AM -0000, Zheng Liu wrote:
>> --- a/debugfs/dump.c
>> +++ b/debugfs/dump.c
>> @@ -105,10 +105,11 @@ static void dump_file(const char *cmdname, ext2_ino_t ino, int fd,
>>  {
>>  	errcode_t retval;
>>  	struct ext2_inode	inode;
>> -	char 		buf[8192];
>> +	char 		buf[current_fs->blocksize];

> Note: this is a non-standard/non-portable GCC extension.  The best way
> to fix this is to explicitly malloc the buffer and then free it before
> dump_file exits.

Er... isn't that also in C99?  That should be portable enough.
Is there an actual compiler of interest that doesn't support it?

Here's a set of C99 conformance tests:
http://p99.gforge.inria.fr/c99-conformance/

Gcc, clang, icc, opencc and pcc all support VLAs.
Only tcc lacks support.  Is tcc support an important goal?
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