Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Declaring array. Is this ok ?
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.193813.9459@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <APS.90Nov12074527@kaarne.tut.fi>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 19:38:13 GMT

In article <APS.90Nov12074527@kaarne.tut.fi> aps@tut.fi (Suntioinen Ari) writes:
>I was wondering if following is legal in (ANSI) C:
>int somefunc(int i)
>{
>	int  array[i]; /* Can I use i here ? */
> ...
>int i;
>...
>{
>	int  array[i]; /* How about here ? */

No.  Array dimensions must be constant expressions, known at compile time.

>Gcc seems to accept both.

Gcc compiles an interesting language which is not ANSI C.
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