diff --git a/openmp/runtime/src/kmp_gsupport.cpp b/openmp/runtime/src/kmp_gsupport.cpp
index d77d4809a7e95..f38a0ddfc62a1 100644
--- a/openmp/runtime/src/kmp_gsupport.cpp
+++ b/openmp/runtime/src/kmp_gsupport.cpp
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 
 #include "kmp.h"
 #include "kmp_atomic.h"
+#include "kmp_utils.h"
 
 #if OMPT_SUPPORT
 #include "ompt-specific.h"
@@ -1280,7 +1281,7 @@ void KMP_EXPAND_NAME(KMP_API_NAME_GOMP_TASK)(void (*func)(void *), void *data,
       KMP_ASSERT(depend);
       kmp_gomp_depends_info_t gomp_depends(depend);
       kmp_int32 ndeps = gomp_depends.get_num_deps();
-      kmp_depend_info_t dep_list[ndeps];
+      SimpleVLA<kmp_depend_info_t> dep_list(ndeps);
       for (kmp_int32 i = 0; i < ndeps; i++)
         dep_list[i] = gomp_depends.get_kmp_depend(i);
       kmp_int32 ndeps_cnv;
@@ -1309,7 +1310,7 @@ void KMP_EXPAND_NAME(KMP_API_NAME_GOMP_TASK)(void (*func)(void *), void *data,
       KMP_ASSERT(depend);
       kmp_gomp_depends_info_t gomp_depends(depend);
       kmp_int32 ndeps = gomp_depends.get_num_deps();
-      kmp_depend_info_t dep_list[ndeps];
+      SimpleVLA<kmp_depend_info_t> dep_list(ndeps);
       for (kmp_int32 i = 0; i < ndeps; i++)
         dep_list[i] = gomp_depends.get_kmp_depend(i);
       __kmpc_omp_wait_deps(&loc, gtid, ndeps, dep_list, 0, NULL);
@@ -1993,7 +1994,7 @@ void KMP_EXPAND_NAME(KMP_API_NAME_GOMP_TASKWAIT_DEPEND)(void **depend) {
   KA_TRACE(20, ("GOMP_taskwait_depend: T#%d\n", gtid));
   kmp_gomp_depends_info_t gomp_depends(depend);
   kmp_int32 ndeps = gomp_depends.get_num_deps();
-  kmp_depend_info_t dep_list[ndeps];
+  SimpleVLA<kmp_depend_info_t> dep_list(ndeps);
   for (kmp_int32 i = 0; i < ndeps; i++)
     dep_list[i] = gomp_depends.get_kmp_depend(i);
 #if OMPT_SUPPORT
diff --git a/openmp/runtime/src/kmp_runtime.cpp b/openmp/runtime/src/kmp_runtime.cpp
index 25136691bc72d..4ac694ace8742 100644
--- a/openmp/runtime/src/kmp_runtime.cpp
+++ b/openmp/runtime/src/kmp_runtime.cpp
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #include "kmp_wait_release.h"
 #include "kmp_wrapper_getpid.h"
 #include "kmp_dispatch.h"
+#include "kmp_utils.h"
 #if KMP_USE_HIER_SCHED
 #include "kmp_dispatch_hier.h"
 #endif
@@ -1652,7 +1653,7 @@ __kmp_serial_fork_call(ident_t *loc, int gtid, enum fork_context_e call_context,
 /* josh todo: hypothetical question: what do we do for OS X*? */
 #if KMP_OS_LINUX &&                                                            \
     (KMP_ARCH_X86 || KMP_ARCH_X86_64 || KMP_ARCH_ARM || KMP_ARCH_AARCH64)
-  void *args[argc];
+  SimpleVLA<void *> args(argc);
 #else
   void **args = (void **)KMP_ALLOCA(argc * sizeof(void *));
 #endif /* KMP_OS_LINUX && ( KMP_ARCH_X86 || KMP_ARCH_X86_64 || KMP_ARCH_ARM || \
diff --git a/openmp/runtime/src/kmp_utils.h b/openmp/runtime/src/kmp_utils.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..ef30d88999c55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/openmp/runtime/src/kmp_utils.h
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+/*
+ * kmp_utils.h -- Utilities that used internally
+ */
+
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+//
+// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
+// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+#ifndef __KMP_UTILS_H__
+#define __KMP_UTILS_H__
+
+#include <cstddef>
+
+/// A simple pure header implementation of VLA that aims to replace uses of
+/// actual VLA, which can cause compile warning. This class by default creates a
+/// stack buffer that can accomodate \p N elements. If the number of elements is
+/// greater than \p N, then a heap buffer will be allocated and used to
+/// accomodate the elements. Similar to the actual VLA, we don't check boundary
+/// (for now), so we will not store the number of elements. We can always revise
+/// it later.
+template <typename T, unsigned N = 8> class SimpleVLA final {
+  T StackBuffer[N];
+  T *HeapBuffer = nullptr;
+  T *Ptr = StackBuffer;
+
+public:
+  SimpleVLA() = delete;
+  SimpleVLA(const SimpleVLA &) = delete;
+  SimpleVLA(SimpleVLA &&) = delete;
+  SimpleVLA &operator=(const SimpleVLA &) = delete;
+  SimpleVLA &operator=(SimpleVLA &&) = delete;
+
+  explicit SimpleVLA(unsigned NumOfElements) noexcept {
+    if (NumOfElements > N) {
+      HeapBuffer = new T[NumOfElements];
+      Ptr = HeapBuffer;
+    }
+  }
+
+  ~SimpleVLA() { delete[] HeapBuffer; }
+
+  const T &operator[](std::size_t Idx) const noexcept { return Ptr[Idx]; }
+  T &operator[](std::size_t Idx) noexcept { return Ptr[Idx]; }
+
+  operator T *() noexcept { return Ptr; }
+  operator const T *() const noexcept { return Ptr; }
+};
+
+#endif