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

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Mike Stump wrote:
> 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...

To be pedantic, we would ideally say "field" in C and "data member" in
C++.  However, C++ programmers tend to understand "field" just fine, so
for error messages from common code I would say "field".

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