Hi Hollowone PL,

what you discovered is actually a feature. It's called VLAs (Variable
Length Arrays).

Strictly speaking, VLAs are not a C++ feature but were introduced in the
C99 standard and then made optional in C11.
Your compiler is supporting them, because it supports C as well to C++.

Cheers,
Bernhard

On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 09:12, Hollowone PL via Std-Discussion <
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>
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm writing as I'm curious about one accidental discovery, due to bug that
> compiles well and works well on gcc.
>
> I declare fixed size array like I used to for years:
>
> int my_array[] = { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4};
>
> then I found code that accidentally allocates size of such array with a
> variable that is defined during runtime
>
> int some_size = value_retrieved_from_somewhere_else;
> int my_array[some_size];
> my_array[3] = 123;
>
> and this code compiles and works well under gcc's c++ even though
> some_size is not constexpr.
>
> Obvious bug in the compiler or some feature I'm not aware of?
>
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