Re: CVS update: subversion/subversion/libsvn_delta vcdiff_parse.c

On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 05:50:19PM -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
> > Come on. It works *everywhere*.
>
> I certainly know people who have made money writing code for some
> of the arcane crufty platforms mentioned in the C FAQ.

Sure.

> At any rate, relax. I said, "If you're aware of this and don't care,
> that's okay." I just didn't want anyone to be ignorant of the issue
> when using that construction.

You said that, but also advocated manual initialization. That is what has me
all jiggered out of shape. sorry.

> And it's not that I'm terribly concerned that we will some day target
> an architecture where it doesn't work--although a lot of code
> certainly breaks on the Alpha because the author simply didn't care
> about platforms where you couldn't stuff a pointer into an int. I
> just believe in staying within the constraints of formal
> specifications. But I won't be religious about that.

Different problem, and one that I agree with you on. Thankfully, we're
seeing much less of the old int/ptr fiasco. Gotta say that [the reasonably
widespread use of] the Alpha has cured of us that :-)

> > If it wasn't, then apr_pcalloc() wouldn't even be necessary.
>
> Not a very strong argument. Not every structure contains pointers,
> and not every application can spare the extra cycles to, for instance,
> manually initialize a large numeric array.

Wasn't trying to be a complete argument. *shrug*

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/