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I think they could potentially have some very limited valid use cases, but I agree that a fixed length array and/or heap allocation is usually much better than

by mort96 3y ago

I think they could potentially have some very limited valid use cases, but I agree that a fixed length array and/or heap allocation is usually much better than VLAs. I was mainly just pointing out that MS's lack of C99 support isn't really a part of keeping C89 alive, especially now that they officially support C11.

aragilar 3y ago
I'm not sure how robust that support is though: https://discuss.python.org/t/requiring-compilers-c11-standard-mode-to-build-cpython/26481/23 https://discuss.python.org/t/requiring-compilers-c11-standar...
- mort96 3y ago
  If the reply is correct, the only issue there is that they're compiling in C89 mode. If you pass `-pedantic -std=c89` to GCC, it too will warn on C99+ features. If you pass `/std:c11` or `/std:c17` to MSVC, C99+ features should work.