On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Sergio Campamá <sergiocamp...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was under the impression that in C you could not do something like:
>
VLA was illegal in the original ANSI/ISO C (C90), has been a gcc extension
for years, and is allowed in C99. It is implemented in gcc as a stack
pointer adjustment.
Peter
>
> void func(int size)
> {
> int array[size];
> //something
> return;
> }
>
> But a friend of mine just proved me wrong, using mspgcc... Searching around
> we found this to be VLA (variable length array) Does this kind of usage
> fall
> into dynamic memory? My impression is that the answer is yes, and therefore
> it shouldn't be used on microprocessors, because malloc can cause havoc (as
> someone told me some emails ago in this very same group).
>
> What are your thoughts on VLA? Does it use malloc internally, and therefore
> should be avoided?
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