[PATCH v3 16/19] net/ixgbe: remove use of VLAs for Windows built code

[Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>]

MSVC does not support VLAs, replace VLAs with standard C arrays
or alloca(). alloca() is available for all toolchain/platform
combinations officially supported by DPDK.

Signed-off-by: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>
---
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c          | 5 +++--
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec_common.h | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
index c61c52b..d460596 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
@@ -3553,7 +3553,8 @@ static int ixgbe_dev_xstats_get_names_by_id(
 
 	uint16_t i;
 	uint16_t size = ixgbe_xstats_calc_num();
-	struct rte_eth_xstat_name xstats_names_copy[size];
+	struct rte_eth_xstat_name *xstats_names_copy =
+	    alloca(sizeof(struct rte_eth_xstat_name) * size);
 
 	ixgbe_dev_xstats_get_names_by_id(dev, NULL, xstats_names_copy,
 			size);
@@ -3736,7 +3737,7 @@ static int ixgbevf_dev_xstats_get_names(__rte_unused struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 
 	uint16_t i;
 	uint16_t size = ixgbe_xstats_calc_num();
-	uint64_t values_copy[size];
+	uint64_t *values_copy = alloca(sizeof(uint64_t) * size);
 
 	ixgbe_dev_xstats_get_by_id(dev, NULL, values_copy, size);
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec_common.h b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec_common.h
index a4d9ec9..78b63b9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec_common.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec_common.h
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 reassemble_packets(struct ixgbe_rx_queue *rxq, struct rte_mbuf **rx_bufs,
 		   uint16_t nb_bufs, uint8_t *split_flags)
 {
-	struct rte_mbuf *pkts[nb_bufs]; /*finished pkts*/
+	struct rte_mbuf **pkts = alloca(sizeof(struct rte_mbuf *) * nb_bufs); /*finished pkts*/
 	struct rte_mbuf *start = rxq->pkt_first_seg;
 	struct rte_mbuf *end =  rxq->pkt_last_seg;
 	unsigned int pkt_idx, buf_idx;
-- 
1.8.3.1