Hi, On 2018-08-20 15:21:07 +1200, Thomas Munro wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 2:55 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@enterprisedb.com> writes: > > ... but I'm less excited about this one. Seems like a great opportunity > > for unexpected stack overflows, and thence at least the chance for > > DOS-causing security attacks. Can we prevent that from being allowed, > > if we start using -std=c99? > > -Werror=vla in GCC, apparently.
How about detecting support for that in our configure script and automatically using it? If we're uncomfortable with raising an error, let's at least raise a warning? - Andres
