https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70555
--- Comment #2 from Martin Sebor <msebor at gcc dot gnu.org> --- Actually, I did find where N3366 (http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3639.html) disallows the test case in vla7.C: Change in 8.3.4 dcl.array paragraph 1 ...: In a declaration T D where D has the form D1 [ expression opt ] attribute-specifier-seq opt and the type of the identifier in the declaration T D1 is "derived-declarator-type-list T", then the type of the identifier of D is an array type; [...] T is called the array element type; this type shall not be a [...] an array of unknown or runtime bound... According to this specification (which was never ratified and ended up being removed from the final C++ standard), the test case in comment #0 would also be ill-formed. Yet, GCC accepts such VLAs in most (all?) other contexts, so I'm not sure that rejecting them here is helpful (though it certainly is inconsistent). I'm going to leave this as ice-on-valid code since as long as such arrays are accepted in other contexts I think it makes sense to accept it here (and also in vla7.C).
