Re: [Vala] array declaration

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 10:45 +0200, Ole André Vadla Ravnås wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 23:07 +0200, Frederik wrote:
> (...)
> > There's one missing type, supported by gcc: dynamic stack-allocated
> > arrays:
> >
> > int a[x];
> >
> > Would be very nice to have.
>
> Although a nice feature, please don't. It would break compatibility
> with non-C99 compilers, like MSVC. (We are using Vala this way in
> http://code.google.com/p/frida-ire/)

Not if it's implemented using alloca().

        Xav