[Bug c++/10207] Empty structure initialization fails under C++ (but works under C)

[gdr@integrable-solutions.net]

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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10207



------- Additional Comments From gdr@integrable-solutions.net  2003-06-14 21:49 -------
Subject: Re:  Empty structure initialization fails under C++ (but works under C)

"bangerth@dealii.org" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org> writes:

| Regarding the sizeof problem: the C standard says that empty
| structures have size zero,

Do you have reference for that statement?

| while the C++ standard says that it must have a nonzero size. Another one
| of those unfortunate decisions of the C standards committee :-(

No, rather another GNU C extension.

-- Gaby