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>Thanks to them being yet another attack vector and funny stuff like on this post, got demoted to optional on C11.

Sadly, the C committee doesn't really understand what was wrong with VLAs and a sizable group of its members wants to make them mandatory again:

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2921.pdf ("Does WG14 want to make VLAs fully mandatory in C23")

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