Flexible Array Members alone in Structures (Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC))

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6.2.5 Structures with only Flexible Array Members ¶

GCC permits a C99 flexible array member (FAM) to be alone in a structure:

struct only_fam {
  int b[];
};

The size of such a structure is zero.