[MLton-devel] OS.IO.poll portability

[Matthew Fluet]

> Speaking of poll(), the file mlton/runtime/basis/OS/IO/poll.c from the CVS  a
> couple  of days ago is not actually legal C (although gcc accepts it).  In C,
> stack frames are constant size.  You  cannot  accept  a  parameter  and  then
> declare a local variable (ufds in this case) to be an array whose size is the
> value of the parameter.

My gcc man pages say:

Arrays of Variable Length
=========================

   Variable-length automatic arrays are allowed in ISO C99, and as an
extension GCC accepts them in C89 mode and in C++.  (However, GCC's
implementation of variable-length arrays does not yet conform in detail
to the ISO C99 standard.)  These arrays are declared like any other
automatic arrays, but with a length that is not a constant expression.
The storage is allocated at the point of declaration and deallocated
when the brace-level is exited.


If you prefer alloca or malloc/free, that's fine.



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