Re: [PATCH] Fix PR c/12446

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>]

"Joseph S. Myers" <jsm@polyomino.org.uk> writes:

| On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| 
| > More precisely, before C99, it was undefined behaviour if a program
| > needs a non-lvalue array to decay to a pointer.  Apparently, GCC
| 
| No, you get an rvalue of array type.

That is not what comes from the quote to C90 standard and conclusions
in the discussion on comp.std.c.  Note that the issue is "decaying a
non-value array to pointer", not its mere existence. 

|  You can pass it to sizeof (with defined results), 

Yes, but that does not need the array to decay to a pointer.  

-- Gaby