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> On Jun 11, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Brandon Casey wrote:
>> Ok, great. Looks like Sun fixed the flaw that was present in the 5.8
>> compiler, and no other changes need to be made to git. To be absolutely
>> sure, and if you have a moment, can you try to compile the code
>> snippet at
>> the end of this email?
>>
>> If you name the saved the code "test.c", then just compile with
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>> /opt/SUNWspro/bin/c99 -c test.c
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>> The Sun C 5.8 compiler complains like this for me:
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>> "test.c", line 12: identifier redeclared: test_func
>> current : function(pointer to const struct a_struct {int b,
>> array[-1] of pointer to char c}) returning pointer to void
>> previous: function(pointer to const struct a_struct {int b,
>> array[-1] of pointer to char c}) returning pointer to void : "test.c",
>> line 4
>> c99: acomp failed for test.c
>>
>> If the 5.9 compiler successfully compiles it, then this new version of
>> Sun's
>> compiler correctly handles c99 flex arrays.
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> It compiles without errors.