Re: [patch] fix wrong gimple code with ptr to forward vla

[Dale Johannesen <dalej at apple dot com>]

On Sep 1, 2006, at 6:29 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 14:12 -0700, Dale Johannesen wrote:
> > fwiw, this is not standard-conforming C99; 6.7.5.2p2 says that  
> > members
> > cannot have VLA types.
>
> So ....
> We are talking about a GCC extension and I don't see how C99 matters
> when we are talking about an extension.

What is?  VLA isn't, it's in C99.  The use as the type of a member is  
an extension,
but it's not documented to work; all the examples in the manual use  
variables.
If people agree this ought to work, that's fine, of course (though  
maybe it should
be so documented).