[pjmlp]

Then I guess C and C++ are toys as well, given there are a couple of breaking changes.

K&R C, gets, Annex K, VLA, gone by now in C17.

gets, exception specifications, external templates, std::auto_ptr now gone, RVO semantics changed, and a couple of other minor semantic changes by C++20.

[badsectoracula]

Nobody has removed support for gets nor VLA (of those that bothered to add them in the first place) or anything else they provided.

TBH i'm not sure about modern C++20 since that has been a shitshow anyway.

[pjmlp]

Apparently you have to update yourself with ISO C contents.

Hint, there are more C compilers out there than clang and GCC.

[badsectoracula]

I know, i've tried a bunch of them and have several C compilers installed but AFAIK none has removed support for gets or VLA (or anything else they bothered to implement). When i wrote "none" i wasn't referring to the standard but to the actual compilers. I do not care what the standard says is deprecated or to be removed, what i care is what compilers actually do since that is what affects existing code.

[MaxBarraclough]

Have VLAs really been removed from the C language? I can't find a source for this.