> Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2020 10:47:21 +0200 > From: Jarom�r Dole ek <jaromir.dole...@gmail.com> > > Readability first and foremost in this case. > > I was exploring if I can disable VLAs for the kernel altogether, this > can't be done for now. Nevertheless, this change looked like it would > be useful to make anyway.
Why does it improve readability? Surely if we want the size of an array of device_t of length n it's more to the point to say sizeof(device_t[n]) directly than to talk about multiplying sizeof(device_t) by n. If that were the only question I think the change makes readability worse, personally! But it sounds like the original motivation is that it triggered -Wvla...which frankly strikes me as a compiler bug since there's obviously no actual VLA created in sizeof; as far as I can tell there's no semantic difference between sizeof(device_t[n]) and sizeof(device_t) * n. What else does -Wvla choke on in src/sys?
