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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 20:18:03 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] Remove false-positive VLAs when using max()
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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@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 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...