Document empty structures

[Fergus Henderson]

On 11-Apr-2003, Geoffrey Keating <gkeating@apple.com> wrote:
> Index: doc/extend.texi
...
> +@node Empty Structures
> +@section Structures With No Members
> +@cindex empty structures
> +@cindex zero-size structures
> +
> +GCC permits a C structure to have no members:
> +
> +@example
> +struct empty @{
> +@};
> +@end example
> +
> +The structure will have size zero.  In C++, empty structures are part
> +of the language, and the language standard says they have size 1.

I'm pretty sure that the C++ language standard does not say that empty
structures have size 1 -- AFAIK it just says that they have non-zero size
(C++98 section 9, paragraph 3).

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