[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] deals with code that has no effect when executed

Måns Rullgård mans
Fri May 30 09:30:39 CEST 2008


Dave Dodge <dododge at dododge.net> writes:

> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:56:52PM -0700, Erik Hovland wrote:
>> I have reworked the patch to leave out the changes to memset because
>> in each one it is using sizeof correctly on static arrays and not.
>
> Just to keep the terminology correct: those arrays are variable
> length, not static.  In fact it is forbidden for a variable length
> array to have static storage duration.

Strictly speaking, it's not forbidden.  It is, however, impossible.
The net result is of course the same.

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