On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Steve LoBasso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I done an analysis of the code.
>
>  In both cases the static variable is used as an argument to ExecuteMacro(). 
> ExecuteMacro() then proceeds to immediately copy the values.
>
>  I came to the following conclusions:
>
>  Because the values are not used past the beginning of ExecuteMacro() and
>  none of the fields are conditionally set, so the static one time 
> initialization is not a problem.
>  This tells me that as the code stands right now it is safe.
Have you tried this:

http://www.nedit.org/pipermail/develop/2008-January/014029.html

Bert
>
>  The variables being static was probably written as a speed optimization and 
> nothing more.
>
>  The current state is fragile but stable. Meaning that it will survive minor 
> maintenance but is a potential land mine to any major code manipulation at a 
> later date.
>
>  Removing the static would be safe.
>
>    -Steve
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>  ----- Original Message ----
>  From: Scott Tringali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>  Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 8:27:02 AM
>  Subject: Re: smartIndent.c: remove static
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>  Thorsten Haude wrote:
>
>  > The question is of course why they are static in the first place.
>
>  I don't know a whole lot about the macro interpreter, but...
>
>  If simply removing static was the right thing to do, the author or
>  commenter probably would have done it.  There is probably a reason it's
>  there.  Passing off a local variable to another routine, which may store
>  the value and use it later isn't a good idea.
>
>  Probably, it needs to be dynamically allocated and properly managed.
>  That's the way I read it that comment.
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