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I do not think security was an issue at this time. I assume you mean this proposal: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/vararray.pdf

I like it and it is on my list to implement as a prototype for GCC.

And WG14 takes security seriously, but I think you overestimate the power WG14 has to simply change things. WG14 is supposed to standardize existing practice, not reinvent the language. So you should complain to compiler vendors. Or contribute to the development of open-source compilers.

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I will believe that, when C finally gets at very least vocabulary types for safer strings and arrays, instead of reboots of functions with pointer/count.

Plenty of compiler vendors have extensions for safer C. Microsoft introduced similar annotation mechanism like the one being discussed here when Windows XP SP 2 came to be, in 2001.

Apparently 50 years weren't enough to make it happen.

Contrast this with how WG21 looks into security and code safety, enough papers on the subject, specially after the cybersecurity bills started to come about.