[jheriko]

well spotted, that should have been C99, of which many features are not supported with the ms compiler. i believe that the variable array thing was pulled in C11 because so few compilers ever bothered to support it...

i see problems with it regularly where we use c code that goes through clang just fine, but cl complains. not putting declarations at the top of a file or scope is the obvious example that comes to mind and constantly snags people...

that being said there are even C++ problems, although smaller. for instance, its impossible to use the preprocessor variadic macros across cl, clang, gcc without getting warnings from at least one of them. i like to run with warnings as errors and the highest warning settings possible.

i'm not going to bother digging up references for informal conversation... but thanks for catching the mistake.