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

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

On Wed, 5 May 2004, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8683 >
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> 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.

Wow, someone actually uses it. :-)

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa