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by demallien 5277 days ago
When did C start accepting non-constants for array size declarations?
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hn_reader 5277 days ago
I was wondering the same thing. But I can confirm it compiles and runs, though I had to supply a -std=c99 flag to gcc.
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demallien 5277 days ago
Ahhh, useful tip. I've just been using alloca instead...
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haberman 5277 days ago
Variable-length arrays were added in C99.
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