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On 15.08.2012 22:00, John Nagle wrote:

>     Occurrences of "sizeof" on fixed length arrays also appear to be
> rare to nonexistent in the corpus of C code known to Google Code Search.

If so, then that either appearance is grievously misleading, or Google 
doesn't really have a representative sample of real-world C code.

> VLAs are already an optional feature in the current C standard draft.

Given they were a _non_-optional feature of the previous actual standard 
of 1999, I'd like a draft number, chapter and verse before I believe that.

> The existing approach, after 13 years, has been rejected by the
> market.

With all due respect, I don't think that you should be the one to 
determine such things.