From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 19:48:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Spell __attribute__ correctly in cache.h.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508281245150.3317@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <43120BC5.8060608@kaijanaho.info>



On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> 
> This is not true under C99.  If an array[] is the last member of a
> struct (which is what we are, AFAIK, talking about), then sizeof that
> struct is defined and gives the size of that struct as if the array's
> size were zero (but the struct cannot be used in an automatic context).

Ahh, thanks. Mea culpa, I thought it was illegal in general. In that case,
the only reason not to use [] is that older gcc's don't like it, but even
that version cut-off may be old enough to not matter.

Anybody know? gcc-2.95 is still considered production at least for the
kernel. I don't have it available to test whether it understands []
though.

		Linus