I hope it is not "basically" dead. I just resubmitted it at the request of several people. And yes, for new APIs you could just change the order, but it does

I hope it is not "basically" dead. I just resubmitted it at the request of several people. And yes, for new APIs you could just change the order, but it does help also with legacy APIs. It does even when not using pointers to arrays: https://godbolt.org/z/TM5Mn95qK https://godbolt.org/z/TM5Mn95qK (I agree that new APIs should pass a pointer to a VLA). (edited because I am agreeing with most of what you said)