From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15167 invoked by alias); 8 May 2003 11:06:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-prs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-prs-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 15151 invoked by uid 71); 8 May 2003 11:06:01 -0000 Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 11:06:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20030508110601.15150.qmail@sources.redhat.com> To: nobody@gcc.gnu.org Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org, From: Frank Heckenbach Subject: Re: c/10612: ICE when calling a function with variable sized return type Reply-To: Frank Heckenbach X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg00603.txt.bz2 List-Id: The following reply was made to PR c/10612; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Frank Heckenbach To: ehrhardt@mathematik.uni-ulm.de, doko@debian.org, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org, hebisch@math.uni.wroc.pl, nobody@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org Cc: Subject: Re: c/10612: ICE when calling a function with variable sized return type Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 01:37:48 +0200 > Synopsis: ICE when calling a function with variable sized return type > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > State-Changed-By: cae > State-Changed-When: Mon May 5 10:58:09 2003 > State-Changed-Why: > Duplicate of 8081. > > http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gcc&pr=10612 BTW, the synopsis in 8081 is quite unspecific (so it's hard to find that report when looking for it). Can it be changed? The variable sized return type seems to be the crucial thing; nested functions are not directly related (just necessary to evoke the problem because GCC won't allow variable sized types outside of functions). Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, frank@g-n-u.de http://fjf.gnu.de/ GnuPG and PGP keys: http://fjf.gnu.de/plan (7977168E)