Re: hypenator.cc errors

On Fr, Sep 06, 2013, Jorge Arellano Cid wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 11:46:10AM +0200, Sebastian Geerken wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > 
> > > Thinking about it again, variable length arrays are a feature of C,
> > > but not of C++, although it seems that most C++ compilers support it.
> > > Since this is a nice feature, but standard C++ should be supported,
> > > I've thought of testing it by the configure script, and then hide two
> > > different implementations behind a macro. See attached patch, which
> > > should be applied to the current hg repository.
> > > 
> > > What do you think? [...]
> > 
> > Third round: I agree with Jorge that this is quite too complex; and
> > profiling shows no performance gain of using the heap over using the
> > stack, so I've replaced it by new and delete. Cris: please test the
> > latest version from hg, it should compile now.
> 
>   There's a memory problem with the sizeof(buf) because it returns
> the pointer size, not the array length!
> 
>   Please see the attached test case for details.
> 
>   (Compile with: g++ -W -Wall size3.cc -o size3)

That's why paths are limited to 7 characters. :-)

Loading hyphenation patterns for language 'de' from '/usr/lo' and exceptions from '/usr/lo' ...

Anyway, fixed now.

Sebastian