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From: Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Two questions on arrays with size defined by variables
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2025 20:19:02 +0200
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On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 18:46:44 +0100
Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:

> wrong! - assignment to 'a[99]' produced also no compiler complaints,

gcc produces warning in this case, but only at optimization level of 2
or higher.
clang does not warn at all, which is disappointing.

OTOH, for non-VLA clang (and MSVC) warn at any optimization level. gcc
behaves the same as with VLA, which is disappointing.