Re: Patch: CPU RNG framework with stub x86 implementation

[Andrew Cagney <andrew.cagney%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 10 January 2016 at 21:08, Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost> wrote:
> As requested - here's just "cpu_rng" itself for review.  I believe this
> version addresses all comments received so far except that I _like_ the
> construct "size_t cnt = <constant>; type_t foo[x]" so I've retained
> that.

According to that ever reliable wikipedia :-)

+ size_t cnt = 2 * RND_ENTROPY_THRESHOLD / sizeof(cpu_rng_t);
+ cpu_rng_t buf[cnt];

variable-length arrays were added in C99, but subsequently, in C11,
were relegated to a conditional feature which implementations are not
required to support.