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Re: [C++ PATCH] warning about empty extern "C" structures
Roman Kononov <kononov195-far@yahoo.com> writes:
| On 05/17/2006 13:18, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > The current behaviour is standard mandated. I fail to see why it is
| > error prone and a kind of lie. If you ask me, it is quite the otehr
| > semantics that is error prone. The current g++ behaviour has been C++
| > semantics since the dark ages. GNU C decided to deviate from it.
|
| BTW
|
| extern "C++" struct S { char q[0]; };
|
| This structure has zero size, can be a member of another structure, can
| be inherited, etc. Is it standard behavior? Just asking.
It is invalid ISO C++ construct.
zero sized arrays has traditionaly raised the temperature on this list.
-- Gaby