Speex dev - Mar 2005 - Improving memory allocation

Hi,

I'm currently working on improving the allocation of temporary data to
allow allocation directly on the (real) stack instead of my
pseudo-stack. I'll probably leave the old allocator available as an
option for compilers that don't understand variable-size arrays, but I'd
like to have an idea of how many people it affects.

Are there many people who cannot compile the following (valid C99)
program?

int main()
{
        int i=1;
        float f[i];
}

	Jean-Marc

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Jean-Marc Valin <Jean-Marc.Valin@USherbrooke.ca>
Universite de Sherbrooke

Hi Jean Marc,

re:
At 11:06 AM 3/3/2005, Jean-Marc Valin wrote:
>Are there many people who cannot compile the following (valid C99)
>program?
I don't think visual c++ 6.0, .Net or any other msft compiler in existence
will handle this properly.  Msft has pushed off C99 support indefinitely,
from what I understand.  Also didn't work on the intel compiler last
time I checked (v. 8.1).

The way this has been dealt with on another C99 compliant project I
fiddle with regularly is that you have to build on windows using mingw,
which inevitably will lead to lots of annoying questions about how to
compile on windoze...

In order to make things work with vc++ many ifdefs may be required....
Hope that helps?

Tom

> I don't think visual c++ 6.0, .Net or any other msft compiler in
existence
> will handle this properly.  Msft has pushed off C99 support indefinitely,
> from what I understand.  Also didn't work on the intel compiler last
> time I checked (v. 8.1).
Can you check in case there's at least a compiler switch to allow it on
those compilers?
> In order to make things work with vc++ many ifdefs may be required....
> Hope that helps?
I'm keeping the previous allocator, so don't worry.

	Jean-Marc

-- 
Jean-Marc Valin <Jean-Marc.Valin@USherbrooke.ca>
Universite de Sherbrooke