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

From: Dale Johannesen <dalej at apple dot com>
To: Olivier Hainque <hainque at adacore dot com>
Cc: Dale Johannesen <dalej at apple dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 14:12:36 -0700
Subject: Re: [patch] fix wrong gimple code with ptr to forward vla
References: <20060901093351.GA10557@cardhu.act-europe.fr>

On Sep 1, 2006, at 2:33 AM, Olivier Hainque wrote:

We first saw it on a Ada testcase then found a C counterpart
exhibiting the same behavior. Compiling the code below ...

   void foo ()
   {
     struct sequence;
     struct sequence * ptr;

     int size = 2;
     struct sequence { int values [size]; };


fwiw, this is not standard-conforming C99; 6.7.5.2p2 says that members
cannot have VLA types.

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