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

["Mike Kaufman" <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 02:28:06PM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8683 >
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> 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?

No. gen-effects makes extensive use of specvec.

-mike