[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] configure: remove -Werror=vla

Derek Buitenhuis derek.buitenhuis at gmail.com
Wed Apr 7 18:29:41 EEST 2021


On 07/04/2021 16:14, Nicolas George wrote:
> Please follow the discussion. Good practice decourages VLA on the stack,
> not pointers to VLA.

I must have missed the discussion as it may be hidden in another thread.

A reference would be good for those of us who have not read every single email
that has ever come into this mailing list.

My 2 cents anyway is that VLA use on the stack is bad practice, same as alloca.
Maybe that's 'controversial'.

- Derek


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