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Re:ZPL: (Almost) C99 Powerkit by h_anna_h on Monday March 22, 2021 @07:41AM (#26539480)
It was not dropped. VLAs were deemed as optional but (if I am not mistaken) this specific syntax is not optional, only local VLA declarations.

> with clang and gcc probably being the only C compilers on Earth that might still support it on C11 and C17 mode

Are there any other C11 compilers even?

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Re:ZPL: (Almost) C99 Powerkit by pjmlp on Monday March 22, 2021 @08:33AM (#26539899)
Deemed as optional is a synomim for dropped to any compiler that is yet to fully implement them, as they aren't required to support it for ISO C certification.

Several commercial compilers for embedded development, mainframes and surviving UNIXes, VC2019 since 16.8.

Additionally ICC apparently never supported VLAs that well.

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