Does 'D' language supports 'C' like VLA?

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On Tuesday, 14 April 2015 at 07:06:24 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> The problem is that the size isn't necessarily known.

C backends have alloca as a primitive:
http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#alloca-instruction

> I guess the compiler could put in a branch, but at that point 
> you'd probably want to give the programmer control and have a 
> way of making it explicit.

A compiler hint is the right thing to do.