ISO opposes variable-length arrays???

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  > ! Second, because C11 no longer requires support for variable length
  > ! arrays,

Can you tell us what's behind this?  Is there some practical problem
caused by supporting variable-length arrays?  If not, what reason was
there to desupport them?

Our support for variable length arrays is not a matter of following
ISO.  GCC has supported variable length arrays since saround 1990.  I
didn't wait for ANSI to bless the feature before adding it, and we
have no reason to deprecate the feature because ISO dropped it.

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