[issue44049] Use C99 Variable-length array if possible

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[issue44049] Use C99 Variable-length array if possible

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[issue44049] Use C99 Variable-length array if possible

Dong-hee Na added the comment: > Also, on a minor note, we use a restricted set of c99 supported by all > compilers so we would need to check if this is supported in all of them Ah, I notice that msvc does not support VLA (Sorry, I am not using Windows machine for 5 years +) Using a C99/C11

[issue44049] Use C99 Variable-length array if possible

Pablo Galindo Salgado added the comment: Thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately I am not very convinced since we already have the self imposed limitation for the maximum size of the string (this is to limit the execution time and memory) so there is no point of allowing bigger buffers. Als

[issue44049] Use C99 Variable-length array if possible

New submission from Dong-hee Na : I had a chance to read Python/suggestion.c and I can notice that we use the static declared size of the array. Since we live in the C99 era and the CPython codebase already uses C99(struct initialization is a good example), how about using the C99 feature if