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Re: GCC 4.5: "nonconstant array index in initializer" error

From: Miles Bader <miles at gnu dot org>
To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:24:32 +0900
Subject: Re: GCC 4.5: "nonconstant array index in initializer" error
References: <c80516030904230031j2f9916a7t7ed05ad53cffd426@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0904231528590.2908@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <c80516030904231046l45b9635fl4f00d2f769ad4bb@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0904231854190.6463@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <c80516030904231338s3b7b4d18yab0ba3ad16849f85@mail.gmail.com> <18738acb0904231658ic8cded6q3c6675b980eafed1@mail.gmail.com> <20090424003926.GO32134@synopsys.com>

Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM> writes:
> The compiler is not supposed to be pedantic by default.  A standards
> document saying that a diagnostic is required should not be the end
> of the story, especially when we're talking about important, widely
> used code bases.

Sure, but at least your example code seems pretty dodgy -- it would be
quite reasonable to argue that even a compiler in "practical mode" (as
opposed to "pedantic mode") should reject it.

-Miles

-- 
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra.  Suddenly it flips over,
pinning you underneath.  At night the ice weasels come.  --Nietzsche

References:
- GCC 4.5: "nonconstant array index in initializer" error
  - From: Denis Onischenko
- Re: GCC 4.5: "nonconstant array index in initializer" error
  - From: Joseph S. Myers
- Re: GCC 4.5: "nonconstant array index in initializer" error
  - From: Denis Onischenko
- Re: GCC 4.5: "nonconstant array index in initializer" error
  - From: Joseph S. Myers
- Re: GCC 4.5: "nonconstant array index in initializer" error
  - From: Denis Onischenko
- Re: GCC 4.5: "nonconstant array index in initializer" error
  - From: James Dennett
- Re: GCC 4.5: "nonconstant array index in initializer" error
  - From: Joe Buck

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