VLA Considerations

Variable-length Array use in this project

Personally, I do not believe the VLA to be the evil that some more-pedantic developers do. Simple, stack-based, "size-determined-at-runtime" storage has its legitimate place as a developer tool. I do understand, however, why academics don't want it available. Students may lack grasp of its underpinnings, rely too readily on or abuse it, then indefinitely write time-bomb code.

Here in this project, VLA use is deliberate, in localized instances — small functions where they free as soon as those functions return — never for long-term or in iterative cases where their allocations could accumulate or "stack up." 🤓

If VLAs bother you, you can change them in your project. To assist, I set -Werror=vla as a Clang - Custom Compiler Flag and Continue building after errors to list them for you here:

Vulkan/Assist/ValidationLayers.cpp
	ValidationLayers::getVulkanInstanceLayers()
 1.		VkLayerProperties instanceLayerProperties[nLayerProperties];

Vulkan/Objects/Swapchain.cpp
	Swapchain::createImageViews()
 2.		VkImage images[nImages];

Vulkan/Objects/GraphicsDevice.cpp
	GraphicsDevice::selectGPU(...)
 3.		VkPhysicalDevice physicalDevices[nPhysicalDevices];
	GraphicsDevice::pickBestDevice(...)
 4.		int ranks[nDevices];

Vulkan/Objects/DeviceQueues.cpp
	DeviceQueues::DetermineFamilyIndices(...)
 5.		VkQueueFamilyProperties familyProperties[nFamilies];

Vulkan/Assist/DeviceAssessment.cpp
	DeviceAssessment::assayDeviceExtensionSupport(...)
 6.		VkExtensionProperties extensionProperties[nDeviceExtensions];
	DeviceAssessment::assaySurfaceFormatSupport(...)
 7.		VkSurfaceFormatKHR formats[nFormats];
	DeviceAssessment::assayPresentModeSupport(...)
 8.		VkPresentModeKHR presentModes[nModes];

Vulkan/AddOns/Descriptors.cpp
	Descriptors::createDescriptorSetLayout()
 9.		VkDescriptorSetLayoutBinding    layoutBindings[numDescribers];
	Descriptors::createDescriptorPool()
 10.		VkDescriptorPoolSize    poolSizes[numDescribers];
	Descriptors::createDescriptorSets()
 11.		VkWriteDescriptorSet descriptorWrite[numDescribers];