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Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8683) remove specvec?
From: "Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 15:17:42 -0700
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<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8683 >

Mike Kaufman wrote:
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8683 >
> 
> On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 02:28:06PM -0700, 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?
> 
> No. gen-effects makes extensive use of specvec.

Hmm, ok.  In that case it should be made inline the same way speclist was.

jason
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