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

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Mike Stump wrote:
> On May 15, 2006, at 3:30 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>> 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".
> 
> Not common (:-(), and I choose the wording I did because that standard
> says:
> 
> A member of a structure or union may have any object type other than a
> variably
> modified type.
> 
> field doesn't occur in the C99 language standard that I could find?  I
> tend to prefer language and terminology from the standard...

Yes, me too; I apparently incorrectly recalled the C standard using
"field".  I don't have C89 handy, but C99 does say "member", so I agree;
let's use that.

Thanks,

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