From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62079C433FE for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:53:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S236151AbiKNRxK (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2022 12:53:10 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:50552 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S237819AbiKNRwv (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2022 12:52:51 -0500 Received: from esa1.mentor.iphmx.com (esa1.mentor.iphmx.com [68.232.129.153]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 36F7822B08 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2022 09:52:50 -0800 (PST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.96,164,1665475200"; d="scan'208";a="89822415" Received: from orw-gwy-02-in.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.167]) by esa1.mentor.iphmx.com with ESMTP; 14 Nov 2022 09:52:49 -0800 IronPort-SDR: f/ij2G9YbM8O1QlyUdXEad2KD3q3McvwZTPaHbpPwSvKc1m0BdDWdpsKmenGZt3DAx/ZBxxQQm hqAJyW551/hwO6GMnzzj0fwIKHZWH+j4jKcmCZSFkpruFlW9tveI8703aDrFKLbylfbpCfLl/j 3EcaSfZRvwB2sh4knn3CAdnXygc0zzY61OzxjrF2mc0jjmyfPVuYh3y5twRnBay+VKlAA96E0n l2AX7OP/TDe1kQ0hShA3Iepb09N7lDq08rxXg/K409UE5BV5t+Cdbi/rHDM3sJIpeJxSu2XbZy nNk= Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:52:44 +0000 From: Joseph Myers To: Alejandro Colomar CC: Martin Uecker , Ingo Schwarze , JeanHeyd Meneide , , Subject: Re: [PATCH] Various pages: SYNOPSIS: Use VLA syntax in function parameters In-Reply-To: <7931044a-b707-5a70-86c2-be298c35aa57@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <20220826210710.35237-1-alx.manpages@gmail.com> <2abccaa2-d472-4c5b-aea6-7a2dddd665da@gmail.com> <4475b350c2a4d60da540c0f3055f466640e6c409.camel@tugraz.at> <51f5a2f2-84c1-bc75-cf94-0cdc1771d37f@gmail.com> <4e3fee795769544738b3dc793aa95d6b34b72047.camel@tugraz.at> <69d694b3-756-792d-8880-87bab482ea34@codesourcery.com> <76c083af-c01f-a4b2-3df-c83075c6b0de@codesourcery.com> <75c352c-e8b5-90d0-5fae-7b211c647934@codesourcery.com> <68746776-87bf-80f9-8e3e-7392e8cef1bb@gmail.com> <77c3557f-4a62-3ede-4df4-4b2b78e265b1@codesourcery.com> <5ae032cd-7a5f-f72b-29ae-6ad7f418da8@codesourcery.com> <7931044a-b707-5a70-86c2-be298c35aa57@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Originating-IP: [137.202.0.90] X-ClientProxiedBy: SVR-IES-MBX-08.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.8) To svr-ies-mbx-10.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.10) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org 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.". -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com