Commit db11af51 authored by scoder's avatar scoder Committed by GitHub

Merge pull request #2244 from gabrieldemarmiesse/doc_vla

Clarified cython's capabilities about C99's VLA.
parents 612363c7 543ebf74
......@@ -77,8 +77,9 @@ containers.
Pointer types are constructed as in C, by appending a ``*`` to the base type
they point to, e.g. ``int**`` for a pointer to a pointer to a C int.
Arrays use the normal C array syntax, e.g. ``int[10]``. Note that Cython uses
array access for pointer dereferencing, as ``*x`` is not valid Python syntax,
Arrays use the normal C array syntax, e.g. ``int[10]``, and the size must be known
at compile time for stack allocated arrays. Cython doesn't support variable length arrays from C99.
Note that Cython uses array access for pointer dereferencing, as ``*x`` is not valid Python syntax,
whereas ``x[0]`` is.
Also, the Python types ``list``, ``dict``, ``tuple``, etc. may be used for
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