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Subject: Re: [9front] Re: [9front] [PATCH] cc: support type qualifiers inside array brackets.
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Quoth mia soweli <inbox@tachibana-labs.org>:
> allows c99 array declarations with type qualifiers inside the brackets.
> for example:
> 
> 	int list[const 5];
> 	int list[const restrict 5];
> 	int list[volatile 5];
> 	int list[static 5];
> 
> i read the standard more closely, the static seems to be an optimization thing that means the array has *at least* however many members, and we should ignore it instead of treating it like static outside the brackets.
> 

the patch looks fine, but the feature seems idiotic.

I wonder if it's more reasonable to just patch it out
and send the patch to upstream.