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

Joseph Myers
2022-11-14T17:53:41Z

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
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