Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 00:14:11 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about genassym, locore.s and 0-sized arrays (showstopper for an icc compiled kernel) Message-ID: <20030905001411.3a9030b3.Alexander@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20030904162858.GI98381@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030904180448.021a1b6b.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20030904162858.GI98381@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:28:58 -0500 Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote: > If you're talking FreeBSD 5, you should be able to simply subsitute a > C99 "flexible array member" (basically replace "[0]" with "[]") and get > the same effect. 0-length arrays are a gcc extension: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html > > Under FreeBSD 4.x, you can't use them because gcc 2.95 only supports > the gcc extension. Intel has added support for a lot of gcc extensions > recently; they may be willing to add this to the list. Please read my mail again, icc already supports my_array[0], but the resulting array in the binary has size '1'. The actual showstopper is the output of genassym.sh. To me it seems it's just a genassym.sh issue, but I don't really know what's going on in the kernel, so I ask here. Bye, Alexander. -- Weird enough for government work. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7
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