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From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
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Subject: Re: Question about genassym, locore.s and 0-sized
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On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:55:07AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > 
> > It does, according to my reading of it.  They may have an issue with
> > dead code removal or element aliasing.  The way to find out would be
> > to see what they emit for "[]"... 0 lenth, or 1?
> 
> % <icc.c 
> char array[];
> 
> % nm icc.o
> 00000001 C array

Interesting, What does icc do with:

struct {
	int tag;
	char obj[];
} foo;

And what does the sizeof() operator give.

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