From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Alan Hayward <Alan.Hayward@arm.com>,
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@imgtec.com>
Cc: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>,
"gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
nd <nd@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/11] Add MIPS_MAX_REGISTER_SIZE (4/4)
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 11:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ebebb23e-e61b-5eff-b666-f2632e554322@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D2365DAB-685B-40C6-923F-07504F10DD92@arm.com>
On 06/09/2017 11:31 AM, Alan Hayward wrote:
> Iâve avoided using variable-length arrays because it has the potential to
> break the stack.
> However, here we know that we arenât going to get a value >8, so maybe in
> this case a VLA would be ok?
>
> Anyone else have an opinion here?
VLAs are not standard C++, unfortunately. Do we know whether all compilers
we care about support them? It doesn't seem worth it to me to rely
on compiler extensions when we know we're always going to see a size <=8.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-09 11:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-04 10:12 [PATCH 3/11] Add MIPS_MAX_REGISTER_SIZE Alan Hayward
2017-04-04 17:19 ` John Baldwin
2017-04-05 10:27 ` Alan Hayward
2017-04-11 15:37 ` Yao Qi
2017-05-05 8:03 ` [PATCH 3/11] Add MIPS_MAX_REGISTER_SIZE (1/4) Alan Hayward
2017-05-05 21:44 ` Yao Qi
2017-05-05 8:04 ` [PATCH 3/11] Add MIPS_MAX_REGISTER_SIZE (4/4) Alan Hayward
2017-06-07 8:31 ` Alan Hayward
2017-06-08 20:27 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-06-09 10:31 ` Alan Hayward
2017-06-09 11:03 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2017-06-09 11:48 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-06-09 12:05 ` Pedro Alves
2017-06-09 13:23 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-06-09 14:29 ` Pedro Alves
2017-06-12 9:09 ` Alan Hayward
2017-06-12 18:11 ` Pedro Alves
2017-06-12 14:29 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-05-05 8:04 ` [PATCH 3/11] Add MIPS_MAX_REGISTER_SIZE (2/4) Alan Hayward
2017-05-05 19:51 ` John Baldwin
2017-05-12 8:53 ` Yao Qi
2017-05-16 11:16 ` Alan Hayward
2017-05-22 12:07 ` Yao Qi
2017-05-22 16:05 ` Alan Hayward
2017-05-22 17:15 ` Pedro Alves
2017-05-23 17:49 ` Alan Hayward
2017-05-23 18:30 ` Pedro Alves
2017-05-24 9:08 ` Alan Hayward
2017-05-24 9:20 ` Pedro Alves
2017-05-24 10:20 ` Alan Hayward
2017-05-24 11:07 ` Pedro Alves
2017-05-24 19:45 ` Alan Hayward
2017-05-25 10:46 ` Pedro Alves
2017-05-25 11:43 ` Yao Qi
2017-05-25 11:48 ` Pedro Alves
2017-05-26 8:54 ` Alan Hayward
2017-05-26 10:26 ` Pedro Alves
2017-05-26 15:30 ` Alan Hayward
2017-05-26 15:49 ` Pedro Alves
2017-05-26 16:18 ` Alan Hayward
2017-05-26 16:00 ` John Baldwin
2017-05-24 9:29 ` Pedro Alves
2017-05-05 8:04 ` [PATCH 3/11] Add MIPS_MAX_REGISTER_SIZE (3/4) Alan Hayward
2017-05-05 21:54 ` Yao Qi
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