On 2020-Apr-05, Tom Lane wrote:
> What I wish we had was alloca(), so you don't need a FUNC_MAX_ARGS-sized
> array to parse a two-argument function call. Too bad C99 didn't add
> that. (But some sniffing around suggests that an awful lot of systems
> have it anyway ... even MSVC. Hmmm.)
Isn't it the case that you can create an inner block with a constant
whose size is determined by a containing block's variable? I mean as in
the attached, which refuses to compile because of our -Werror=vla -- but
if I remove it, it compiles fine and works in my system.
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