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Re: Fix up vla, vm and [*] semantics for C

From: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
To: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
Cc: "gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org Patches" <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 15:18:25 -0700
Subject: Re: Fix up vla, vm and [*] semantics for C
References: <AEC9B270-7BFC-4978-AE21-2819C3236B23@apple.com> <20060513002959.GC20405@duron.akihabara.co.uk>

On May 12, 2006, at 5:29 PM, Neil Booth wrote:

gcc.c-torture/compile/20010605-1.c:7: error: not an ordinary
identifier, structure and unions are not ordinary


This seems a particularly bizarre diagnostic (not unusual in
GCC...) IMO structures and unions are quite ordinary. 8-)

Why not simply say members cannot have variably modified type?

Ok, fixed:

gcc.dg/vla-6.c:22: error: a member of a structure or union cannot have a variably modified type

I think that sounds better and still uses language from the standard...

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