Compiling C++ on MacOS9.1 question

At school we are stuck with iMacs running macOS9.1 and Codewarrior IDE 4.1.

Anyways, at home on my windows box I wrote some code where the user inputs a value, its stored in an int value, and then an array is created like so:

Code:

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int a;
cin >> a;
int Array[8][a];

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It compiled with no troubles on my windows box, but the mac said something about illegal constant expression I believe.

Is this a quirk of Codewarrior or MacOS? And is what I did actually "legal"or did the wiindows machines just let me get away with?

Thanks

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Originally posted by Captain Penguin
At school we are stuck with iMacs running macOS9.1 and Codewarrior IDE 4.1.

Anyways, at home on my windows box I wrote some code where the user inputs a value, its stored in an int value, and then an array is created like so:

Code:

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int a;
cin >> a;
int Array[8][a];

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It compiled with no troubles on my windows box, but the mac said something about illegal constant expression I believe.

Is this a quirk of Codewarrior or MacOS? And is what I did actually "legal"or did the wiindows machines just let me get away with?

Thanks

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if the above code works its because of compiler specific extentions i believe

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Originally posted by moi
if the above code works its because of compiler specific extentions i believe

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So that wouldn't be accepted as "standard" C++?

:eek: