Is this valid under the variable-length array standard in C99?
And yes, it compiles with no warnings (gcc). I thought one needed to explicity use an int or size_t, etc. like this:Code:int foo(char *p) { char s[ strlen(p) ]; .......... }
Code:int foo(char *p, size_t x) { char s [ x ]; ...... }
Nope, it's valid. You can even use a function call!
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Since strlen's return value, size_t, is an integral type I see no issue.Originally Posted by C99
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