From 8c7a6242808887762170abd41b0e0f0fd20fa3c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: SymbolixAU <dcooley@symbolix.com.au>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 08:13:47 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] variable lenght char buffer

---
 src/read_geojson.cpp | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/read_geojson.cpp b/src/read_geojson.cpp
index 76afa72..c27b3b8 100644
--- a/src/read_geojson.cpp
+++ b/src/read_geojson.cpp
@@ -21,7 +21,12 @@
 rapidjson::Document buffer_string( const char* file, const char* mode, int buffer_size = 1024 ) {
 
 	FILE* fp = fopen(file, mode );
-	char readBuffer[ buffer_size ];
+	//char readBuffer[ buffer_size ];
+	//rapidjson::FileReadStream is(fp, readBuffer, sizeof( readBuffer ) );
+
+	// ISO C++ forbids variable length array ‘readBuffer’ [-Wvla]
+	// https://stackoverflow.com/a/11379442/5977215
+	char *readBuffer = new char[ buffer_size ];
 
 	rapidjson::FileReadStream is(fp, readBuffer, sizeof( readBuffer ) );