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[jira] Moved: (MAPREDUCE-1166) SerialUtils.cc: dynamic allocation of arrays based on runtime variable is not portable

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1166?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Allen Wittenauer moved HADOOP-6263 to MAPREDUCE-1166:
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        Key: MAPREDUCE-1166  (was: HADOOP-6263)
    Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce  (was: Hadoop Common)

> SerialUtils.cc: dynamic allocation of arrays based on runtime variable is not portable
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-1166
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1166
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Allen Wittenauer
>
> In SerialUtils.cc, the following code appears:
>     int len;
>     if (b < -120) {
>       negative = true;
>       len = -120 - b;
>     } else {
>       negative = false;
>       len = -112 - b;
>     }
>     uint8_t barr[len];
> as far as I'm aware, this is not legal in ANSI C and will be rejected by ANSI compliant compilers.  Instead, this should be malloc()'d based upon the size of len and free()'d later.

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