[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8683) remove specvec?

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8683 >

Jason Short wrote:
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8683 >
> 
> Specvec (utility/specvec*) is unused.  I didn't even know it existed 
> until Raimar pointed it out to me today.  It says that it creates 
> variable-sized type-safe arrays ("what you end up doing when you don't 
> use C++").  But C99 already has variable-sized typed arrays.  So it 
> should never be used.
> 
> Can we remove it?

Here's the patch.  It should be accompanied by a cvs rm of 
utility/specvec_c.h and utility/specvec.h.

jason

Index: utility/Makefile.am
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RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/utility/Makefile.am,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 Makefile.am
--- utility/Makefile.am 5 May 2004 20:39:16 -0000       1.2
+++ utility/Makefile.am 5 May 2004 21:41:27 -0000
@@ -38,8 +38,6 @@
                shared.c        \
                shared.h        \
                speclist.h      \
-               specvec.h       \
-               specvec_c.h     \
                support.c       \
                support.h       \
                timing.c        \