> Should this compile? My version of Stroustrup's 'The C++ Programming > Language (c) 2000' states in section 5.2: "The number of elements of the > array, the array bound, must be a constant expression". > > Is this by any chance a gcc extension? Variable-length automatic arrays are allowed in ISO C99, and as an extension GCC accepts them in C89 mode and in C++. If you don't want this to compile, -pedantic will reject code with extensions. Regards, Ryan Mansfield
