[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | Reconsidering use of VLAs and alloca() (#684)

[Development of GNU's TLS library]

Another reason to use malloc()/heap instead of VLA/stack  is that sanitizers/fuzzing have difficulties to detect buffer overflows on the stack. Mainly because local variables are put together as one single block of stack memory.

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