[PATCH] Various pages: SYNOPSIS: Use VLA syntax in function parameters

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Mon Nov 14 17:52:44 GMT 2022


On Sun, 13 Nov 2022, Alejandro Colomar via Gcc wrote:

> Maybe allowing integral types and pointers would be enough.  However,
> foreseeing that the _Lengthof() proposal (BTW, which paper was it?) will
> succeed, and combining it with this one, _Lengthof(pointer) would ideally give
> the length of the array, so allowing pointers would conflict.

Do you mean N2529 Romero, New pointer-proof keyword to determine array 
length?  To quote the convenor in WG14 reflector message 18575 (17 Nov 
2020) when I asked about its status, "The author asked me not to put those 
on the agenda.  He will supply updated versions later.".

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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