Declaring array. Is this ok ?

[Henry Spencer]

In article <APS.90Nov12074527 at kaarne.tut.fi> aps at 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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