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From: "pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>
To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: [Bug c++/100124] Why is "flexible array member '...' in an otherwise empty '...'" an issue?
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2021 00:51:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-100124-4-ykUXF30W5a@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-100124-4@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100124

--- Comment #4 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Martin Sebor from comment #3)
> The reason why G++ rejects structs with a flexible array as the sole member
> is because GCC (in C mode) doesn't accept them.  Git log indicates that GCC
> started rejecting such code in r38705

Note this change was done long before clang was around so it would be
interesting to know why clang chose differently.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-17  0:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-16 20:18 [Bug c/100124] New: " gcc at behdad dot org
2021-04-16 20:50 ` [Bug c++/100124] " pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org
2021-04-16 21:02 ` jakub at gcc dot gnu.org
2021-04-17  0:03 ` msebor at gcc dot gnu.org
2021-04-17  0:51 ` pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org [this message]
2021-04-17 21:13 ` msebor at gcc dot gnu.org
2021-04-20 19:32 ` gcc at behdad dot org
2021-04-20 20:30 ` pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org
2021-04-20 22:16 ` gcc at behdad dot org
2021-04-26 22:26 ` msebor at gcc dot gnu.org

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