bench: refactor to use dynamic memory allocation in stats/strided/dmskmin

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Author: whizzel

lib/node_modules/@stdlib/stats/strided/dmskmin/benchmark/c/benchmark.length.c

@@ -97,11 +97,12 @@ static double rand_double( void ) {
 static double benchmark1( int iterations, int len ) {
 	unsigned char mask[ len ];
 	double elapsed;
-	double x[ len ];
+	double *x;
 	double v;
 	double t;
 	int i;
 
+	x = (double *) malloc( len * sizeof( double ) );
 	for ( i = 0; i < len; i++ ) {
 		if ( rand_double() < 0.2 ) {
 			mask[ i ] = 1; // missing
@@ -124,6 +125,7 @@ static double benchmark1( int iterations, int len ) {
 	if ( v != v ) {
 		printf( "should not return NaN\n" );
 	}
+	free( x );
 	return elapsed;
 }
 
@@ -137,11 +139,12 @@ static double benchmark1( int iterations, int len ) {
 static double benchmark2( int iterations, int len ) {
 	unsigned char mask[ len ];
 	double elapsed;
-	double x[ len ];
+	double *x;
 	double v;
 	double t;
 	int i;
 
+	x = (double *) malloc( len * sizeof( double ) );
 	for ( i = 0; i < len; i++ ) {
 		if ( rand_double() < 0.2 ) {
 			mask[ i ] = 1; // missing
@@ -164,6 +167,7 @@ static double benchmark2( int iterations, int len ) {
 	if ( v != v ) {
 		printf( "should not return NaN\n" );
 	}
+	free( x );
 	return elapsed;
 }