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

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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:
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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?
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> No. gen-effects makes extensive use of specvec.

I still don't see what benefits (aside from decreased speed) it offers 
over simply using an array.  In fact the header comment basically says 
right-out that it just replaces an array.  Can someone explain?

jason