Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] Remove false-positive VLAs when using max()

[Al Viro]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 01:15:27PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 1:12 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > That's C99, straight from N1256.pdf (C99-TC3)...
> 
> I checked C90, since the error is
> 
>    ISO C90 forbids variable length array
> 
> and I didn't see anything there.

Well, yes - VLA are new in C99; C90 never had those...