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[Mark Mitchell]

>>>>> "Martin" == Martin v Loewis <martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:

    Martin> So I think g++ *will* have to support this feature of C99,

Well, that depends on the C++ committee, but it does seem quite
possible.

    Martin> perhaps only in contexts where it was well-formed C99. If
    Martin> you remove zero-sized arrays now, it might be worthwhile
    Martin> considering how flexible array members can be implemented.

This is a good point.  I'm not withdrawing my proposal to remove the
extension, but I would like to understand Nathan's change better.

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