[Bug c++/12807] [tree-ssa] ICE on variable sized array in class

["falk dot hueffner at student dot uni-tuebingen dot de" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

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------- Additional Comments From falk dot hueffner at student dot uni-tuebingen dot de  2003-10-28 10:58 -------
Subject: Re:  [tree-ssa] ICE on variable sized array in class

"reichelt at igpm dot rwth-aachen dot de" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org> writes:

> Well, I think it's an instance of the variable sized array
> extension.

Hm, could you point me to the documentation for that?

> You just have a pointer there, as far as I understand it. The memory
> is allocated in a different location at runtime. So there should be
> no problem to compute sizeof().
> 
> Btw, all versions since 3.0 accept the code - and since 3.3.1 they
> reject it if -pedantic is specified.

But not this:

struct A
{
    static int n;
    char text[n];
};

So it's probably rather a bug in 3.3.