Re: [PATCH] 4/4: DM: dm-raid1.c: Use fixed-size arrays

[Jedi/Sector One]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:07:53PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> Quoting Kevin Corry <kevcorry@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > -	struct io_region from, to[ms->nr_mirrors - 1], *dest;
> 
> Heh? Could someone please explain how this could compile?

  Such a dynamic allocation on the stack is a GCC extension, implemented for
a very long time.

  I guess this is not very different from alloca().
  
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