On 2/17/19 9:39 PM, clipka wrote:
> Am 18.02.2019 um 00:41 schrieb William F Pokorny:
> 
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>> OK. Surprised the heap allocation is slower than one on the stack. I 
>> figured the allocation and free mechanisms were more or less the same 
>> - just being a difference of where in memory it happened. Guess not?
> 
> Definitely not.
> 

Dick, Christoph, Thanks both for the helpful tutorials on stack operation.

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> As a matter of fact, as I just discovered, C99 _does_ support such a 
> thing; but it's not "flexible array member" but "variable length 
> arrays"; and they can't be nested in structs, and C++ did not adopt them.
> 
> One reason why C++ did not adopt them is some entirely unrelated 
> fundamental stumbling block rooted in the C++ type concept. But I guess 
> they might also mess up - or at least complicate - exception handling; 
> "stack unwinding" would be the buzzword there.

This last I'd come across as I was thrashing around. I must have blended 
the two features together as one in my mind...

Bill P.

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