From: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: Alex Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Uecker <uecker@tugraz.at>,
Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>,
JeanHeyd Meneide <wg14@soasis.org>, <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>,
<gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Various pages: SYNOPSIS: Use VLA syntax in function parameters
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 00:05:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <defac23b-1af3-d6a-b5d3-bb034d7702d@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <494309ce-c8ec-5219-f83e-b8dda5b9bcd1@gmail.com>
On Tue, 29 Nov 2022, Alex Colomar via Gcc wrote:
> I guess asking the compiler to do two passes on the param list isn't as bad as
> asking to do unbound lookahead. In this case it's bound: look ahead till the
> end of the param list; get as much info as possible, and then do it again to
> complete. Anything not yet clear after two passes is not valid.
Unbounded here means an unbounded number of tokens, as opposed to e.g.
looking one token ahead after seeing an identifier in statement context to
determine if it's a label.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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2022-09-02 21:57 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-09-03 12:47 ` Martin Uecker
2022-09-03 13:29 ` Ingo Schwarze
2022-09-03 15:08 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-09-03 13:41 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-09-03 14:35 ` Martin Uecker
2022-09-03 14:59 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-09-03 15:31 ` Martin Uecker
2022-09-03 20:02 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-09-05 14:31 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-10 0:06 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-10 0:09 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-10 1:33 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-10 1:39 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-10 6:21 ` Martin Uecker
2022-11-10 10:09 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-10 23:19 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-10 23:28 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-11 19:52 ` Martin Uecker
2022-11-12 1:09 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-12 7:24 ` Martin Uecker
2022-11-12 12:34 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-12 12:46 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-12 13:03 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-12 13:40 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-12 13:58 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-12 14:54 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-12 15:35 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-12 17:02 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-12 17:08 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-12 15:56 ` Martin Uecker
2022-11-13 13:19 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-13 13:33 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-13 14:02 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-13 14:58 ` Martin Uecker
2022-11-13 15:15 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-13 15:32 ` Martin Uecker
2022-11-13 16:25 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-13 16:28 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-13 16:31 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-13 16:34 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-13 16:56 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-13 19:05 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-14 18:13 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-28 22:59 ` Alex Colomar
2022-11-28 23:18 ` Alex Colomar
2022-11-29 0:05 ` Joseph Myers [this message]
2022-11-29 14:58 ` Michael Matz
2022-11-29 15:17 ` Uecker, Martin
2022-11-29 15:44 ` Michael Matz
2022-11-29 16:58 ` Uecker, Martin
2022-11-29 17:28 ` Alex Colomar
2022-11-29 16:49 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-29 16:53 ` Jonathan Wakely
2022-11-29 17:00 ` Martin Uecker
2022-11-29 17:19 ` Alex Colomar
2022-11-29 17:29 ` Alex Colomar
2022-12-03 21:03 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-12-03 21:13 ` Andrew Pinski
2022-12-03 21:15 ` Martin Uecker
2022-12-03 21:18 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-12-06 2:08 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-14 17:52 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-14 17:57 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-14 18:26 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-28 23:02 ` Alex Colomar
2022-11-10 9:40 ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-11-10 10:59 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-10 22:25 ` G. Branden Robinson
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