On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 12:04 -0500, Glenn Fowler wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:32:41 -0500 Richard Lowe wrote:
> > John Plocher wrote:
> > > ]ast/ksh93, you are _not_ in favor of the VLA changes that
> > > Roland and crew are proposing for integration into ast/ksh93
> > > code as a result of their ksh93-for-opensolaris efforts?
>
> > The VLA-using code in question is *not* in AST code. It is in Roland's
> > reimplementation of libc's wordexp().
>
> right
>
> my objection in this case is a new feature, not directly related
> to the ksh-integration, is slowing down the ksh-integration process
>
> it may be a valiant fight to wage, but maybe not on ksh-integrations's dime
Agreed. Seems like the path of least resistance is for Roland to
rewrite wordexp() to use alloca().
- Bill
