Re: ✘Kill all VLAs

2018-10-31 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Ian! On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 06:04:45 -0500 Ian Bruene via devel wrote: > >>> Looks straightforward enough. Ian? > >> Will look into in a little while. > > Invoke me if you run into trouble, but this should be pretty > > sreaightforward. > > Gary said he removed both of them a few

Re: ✘Kill all VLAs

2018-10-31 Thread Ian Bruene via devel
On 10/31/18 2:07 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: Ian Bruene via devel : On 10/30/18 3:32 PM, Mark Atwood, Project Manager via devel wrote: Looks straightforward enough. Ian? Will look into in a little while. Invoke me if you run into trouble, but this should be pretty sreaightforward. Gary

Re: ✘Kill all VLAs

2018-10-31 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Ian Bruene via devel : > > > On 10/30/18 3:32 PM, Mark Atwood, Project Manager via devel wrote: > > Looks straightforward enough. Ian? > > Will look into in a little while. Invoke me if you run into trouble, but this should be pretty sreaightforward. --

Re: ✘Kill all VLAs

2018-10-30 Thread Ian Bruene via devel
On 10/30/18 3:32 PM, Mark Atwood, Project Manager via devel wrote: Looks straightforward enough. Ian? Will look into in a little while. -- /"In the end; what separates a Man, from a Slave? Money? Power? No. A Man Chooses, a Slave Obeys."/ -- Andrew Ryan /"Utopia cannot precede the

Re: ✘Kill all VLAs

2018-10-30 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Project Manager! Hal fixed the last two yesterday. On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:32:15 -0700 "Mark Atwood, Project Manager" wrote: > Looks straightforward enough. Ian? > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 12:02 PM Gary E. Miller via devel > wrote: > > > Yo All! > > > > The Linux kernel has now removed

Re: ✘Kill all VLAs

2018-10-30 Thread Mark Atwood, Project Manager via devel
Looks straightforward enough. Ian? On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 12:02 PM Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: > Yo All! > > The Linux kernel has now removed all Varible Length Arrays (VLAs). > > Linux has spoke: > > "USING VLA'S IS ACTIVELY STUPID! It generates much more code, and much > _slower_ code

✘Kill all VLAs

2018-10-29 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo All! The Linux kernel has now removed all Varible Length Arrays (VLAs). Linux has spoke: "USING VLA'S IS ACTIVELY STUPID! It generates much more code, and much _slower_ code (and more fragile code), than just using a fixed key size would have done." It is easy to find where VLAs are used,