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Re:Fortran is still a thing by cygx on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @04:09AM (#18550215)
Heap-allocated dynamically-sized NxM matrix in C99:

    double (*mat)[M] = calloc(N * M, sizeof (double));
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Re:Fortran is still a thing by int_19h on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @04:26AM (#18550282)
Ah, good point. I always forget that VLA types in C99 are actually types, and so you can use them in these contexts as well.

It's a shame they killed VLAs as a mandatory language feature. They didn't make C into Fortran (which I think was the hope, between them, complex numbers, and "restrict"?), but they did make some things a great deal more pleasant to write.

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