[Nut-upsdev] drivers/bcmxcp.c portability issue

[Charles Lepple]

On Dec 15, 2009, at 8:40 PM, Tim Rice wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Arjen de Korte wrote:
>
>> Citeren Kjell Claesson <kjell.claesson at epost.tidanet.se>:
>>
>>>> Although gcc can handle it, it's not portable C code.
>>>>
>>>> What size should the answer array be?
>>>>
>>>
>>> It depends on the ups.
>>
>> If the size of the answer isn't known at compile time, you should  
>> either
>> allocate it dynamically with malloc() or calloc() (at runtime) or  
>> hardcode the
>> size so big that any reply should fit in it.
>
> This may be the least intrusive way to fix it.


Tim,

Looks good to me, but for some reason, your patches seem to be missing  
a leading space (which makes them not apply automatically. I am  
attaching a patch that is functionally equivalent to yours, and if  
nobody objects, that's what I'll commit.

- Charles
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