Re: return a string

Alan Balmer <albalmer@xxxxxxx> writes:
> On 29 Apr 2005 14:04:10 -0700, underscore0x5f@xxxxxxxxx (Nascimento)
> wrote:
[...]
>>{
>> int i;
>> char tralha[num];
>
> You can't declare a variable size array.

Yes you can, if you have a C99 compiler or a pre-C99 compiler that
supports the feature. (The form of the diagnostics implies that he's
probably using gcc, which does support VLAs.)

I covered the portability issues in my previous followup.

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