From: しらいしななこ Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:50:18 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] progress.c: avoid use of dynamic-sized array Message-ID: <200806082151.m58Lp6sG014324@mi0.bluebottle.com> In-Reply-To: Quoting Boyd Lynn Gerber : > Dynamically sized arrays are gcc and C99 construct. Using them hurts > portability to older compilers, although using them is nice in this case > it is not desirable. This patch removes the only use of the construct > in stop_progress_msg(); the function is about writing out a single line > of a message, and the existing callers of this function feed messages > of only bounded size anyway, so use of dynamic array is simply overkill. > > Signed-off-by: Boyd Lynn Gerber I may be mistaken but isn't this Junio's patch? If so (quoting from SubmittingPatches document): If you are forwarding a patch from somebody else, optionally, at the beginning of the e-mail message just before the commit message starts, you can put a "From: " line to name that person. -- Nanako Shiraishi http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Find out how you can get spam free email. http://www.bluebottle.com/tag/3