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Re: Zero-length arrays


On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:34:42AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> You mean disallowing a zero array size and disallowing the number of
> initializers being greater than the given array size?  This is of
> course OK, we never consciously did this.

Actually, I was talking about this in the context of allowing

	struct f {
	  int w;
	  int x[];
	} f = { 1, { 2, 3, 4 } };

but disallowing

	struct f {
	  int w;
	  int x[0];
	} f = { 1, { 2, 3, 4 } };

since "clearly" X has zero elements.


r~

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