Hi,
On 2018-08-20 15:21:07 +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 2:55 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > ... but I'm less excited about this one. Seems like a great opportunity
> > for unexpected stack overflows, and thence at least the chance for
> > DOS-causing security attacks. Can we prevent that from being allowed,
> > if we start using -std=c99?
>
> -Werror=vla in GCC, apparently.
How about detecting support for that in our configure script and
automatically using it? If we're uncomfortable with raising an error,
let's at least raise a warning?
- Andres
