Yes, VLA is bad, but declare anywhere is very desirable. curl can't move due to old MSVC, but once that is solved, it would make a lot of sense to move to C99.

Yes, VLA is bad, but declare anywhere is very desirable. curl can't move due to old MSVC, but once that is solved, it would make a lot of sense to move to C99. The post itself says "It is not a no to C99 forever".