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Re:Legitimate Use of Variable Length Arrays by bdisnainc on Monday October 28, 2019 @11:55AM (#21378061)
It does not do random damage, you get a segmentation fault in most systems.

In really small embedded you should not be allocating anything meaningful in the stack anyway.

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Re:Legitimate Use of Variable Length Arrays by Gibbon1 on Monday October 28, 2019 @11:01PM (#21383952)
In small embedded things are either statically allocated or allocated on the stack. There is no heap.
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