Re: How far should one go preventing potential memory leaks?

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 10.05.2016 um 10:13 schröbte gz@tset.de:
> > Well, in the real code the allocations are made for user supplied
> > parameters, so I don't
> > know neither the size of the parameters not their count (which can be
> > up to 65535), so
> > I really need to allocate the memory.
>
> how about C99 variable length arrays? C99 is available almost everywhere
> by now, given that it is 17 years old, and var arrays seem to do exactly
> what you want with added leakage prevention.

There are still very old compilers (*cough* Visual C *cough*) that don't 
support it, and there probably will be very new compilers that won't 
support it either, because it is now an optional feature in the current 
ISO C standard (2011). Also it has bad behavior when an allocation 
request cannot be fulfilled.

Philipp