Re: [PATCH] progress.c: avoid use of dynamic-sized array

> Quoting Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>:
> > 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 <gerberb@zenez.com>
> 
> I may be mistaken but isn't this Junio's patch?  If so (quoting
> from SubmittingPatches document):
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