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Re: sizeof wrong for struct with final zero-length array
> I order to support this feature, gcc needs to output debug symbol
> table entries that reflect the decl, rather than the type. Debug
> information is beyond the scope of the C standard, and the STABS
> documentation at least doesn't address this case, so it would seem
> there is some freedom to implement the treatment of FAMs I describe.
>
> Comments?
I think it would be definitely helpful to have such kind of
information in the debugger. However, it may be that you have to
create a new type in the debugging information for each variable, and
then have only one variable of the type.
Regards,
Martin