This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: C99 conformance bug in gcc-3.1


On 30-May-2002, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:46:30PM +1000, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> > 
> > Reading more, I see that according to ISO C99, it's a constraint violation
> > to put such a structure in an array (see 6.7.2.1/[#2]).
> 
> Also 6.7.5.2p1 (since such structures have an incomplete type).

No, structures containing flexible array members don't have incomplete types.

(If they did, it would be a constraint error to apply `sizeof' to them.)

-- 
Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au>  |  "I have always known that the pursuit
The University of Melbourne         |  of excellence is a lethal habit"
WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh>  |     -- the last words of T. S. Garp.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]