John Levon wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:03:27AM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote:
> > Grumpf... that's unfortunate since it adds some complexity to the code
> > and ruines the idea to exploit exactly this feature in the OS/Net
> > codebase. The OS/Net code, both kernel (yes, I know... kernel threads
> 
> Well, you were asking for a workaround, I suppose that not using VLA is it.

Or use |alloca()| ... but the idea was to use more C99 features in the
OS/Net tree instead of using the old cruft.

> It's also probably pretty easy to fix (and we'd need the DWARF fix too for 
> when
> GCC is the primary compiler). As I mentioned to Rich Lowe, I don't remember 
> the
> vla syntax used by SS11 being in the stabs spec, so we'd need to ask one of 
> the
> compiler people where the syntax came from and what its spec is.
> 
> Note that we just need to do a simple parsing of the stab as we throw it away;
> it's not something that ends up being used in the resultant CTF.

Is there a way to get the patch and land it together as part of the
ksh93-integration tree ?

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Bye,
Roland

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