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0 pointsmort963y ago0 comments

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.

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aragilar3y ago· 1 in thread

I'm not sure how robust that support is though: https://discuss.python.org/t/requiring-compilers-c11-standar...

mort96OP3y 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.

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