Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 03:13:41 +0000 From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A few questions about a few includes Message-ID: <20020307031341.C19669@chiark.greenend.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <44henw2hqp.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net>
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Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> wrote:
>
>C-99 requires a fully specified type before the unspecified array (and
>requires said array to be the last element in the structure). So this
>example is *not* valid in C99, but the following would be:
>
>struct foo {
> int bar;
> char array[];
>};
>
>[Which makes sense; it forces a structure to have a non-zero size.]
Although there has been some discussion in the committee about allowing
zero-sized objects in C, the standard doesn't allow them. This is perhaps
why it doesn't follow gcc's [0] syntax for variable length arrays at the
end of structures.
Tony.
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