Re: [Tinycc-devel] VLA implementation

[Edmund Grimley Evans]

Sergey Korshunoff <address@hidden>:

> > Yeah, well, we know what VLAs are.  The question was, which software do
> > you use, that requires VLAs "with interrupts" (whatever that's supposed to
> > mean)?
> 
> Linux/FreeBSD kernel don't use VLA? Shure? How about kernel modules?

I don't know. Can you find out?

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-sparse/msg03135.html says that
"variable-length arrays are problematic" in the Linux kernel (because
there would be bad consequences if someone tried to allocate too much
memory on the stack).