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In C99, the length parameter must come before the variable-length array parameter in function calls. [1] In C11, a __STDC_NO_VLA__ macro is defined if VLA is not supported. [6] The C23 standard makes VLA types mandatory again. Only creation of VLA objects with automatic storage duration is optional. [7]
keyword static in array indices in parameter declarations [8] Parts of the C99 standard are included in the current version of the C++ standard, including integer types, headers, and library functions. Variable-length arrays are not among these included parts because C++'s Standard Template Library already includes similar functionality.
C99 and C11 added several additional features to C that have not been incorporated into standard C++ as of C++20, such as complex numbers, variable length arrays (complex numbers and variable length arrays are designated as optional extensions in C11), flexible array members, the restrict keyword, array parameter qualifiers, and compound literals.
This standard is commonly referred to as C99. Some notable additions to the previous standard include: ... compound literals, variable-length arrays, flexible array ...
C99 introduced several new features, including inline functions, several new data types (including long long int and a complex type to represent complex numbers), variable-length arrays and flexible array members, improved support for IEEE 754 floating point, support for variadic macros (macros of variable arity), and support for one-line ...
C99 standardised variable-length arrays (VLAs) within block scope. Such array variables are allocated based on the value of an integer value at runtime upon entry to a block, and are deallocated at the end of the block. [3] As of C11 this feature is no longer required to be implemented by the compiler.
Flexible array members were officially standardized in C99. [4] In practice, compilers (e.g., GCC , [ 5 ] MSVC [ 6 ] ) provided them well before C99 was standardized. Flexible array members are not officially part of C++ , but language extensions [ 7 ] are widely available.
C99 offered variable-length arrays as an alternative stack allocation mechanism – however, this feature was relegated to optional in the later C11 standard. POSIX defines a function posix_memalign that allocates memory with caller-specified alignment.