Why does my compiler let me do this...

[elohssa]

Was reading an article on dynamic memory allocation here...

http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/articles/416/

Why does my compiler (g++ that comes with cygwin) allow me to do this...


#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;

/*
*
*/
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
int size=10;
int array[size];
return 0;
}

[guestgulkan]

It is allowed in C - and the GCC compiler allows it when compiling C++ code (which I believe is something they should change as it is against C++ standard).

[Cubbi]

GCC has the option -pedantic to flag supported deviations from the standard, and -pedantic-errors to make those deviations fatal errors.