> rejecting the struct seems like the right thing to do as per > ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf) > sec. 6.7.2.1 para. 2 > > "A structure or union shall not contain a member with incomplete or function > type (hence, > a structure shall not contain an instance of itself, but may contain a > pointer to an instance > of itself), except that the last member of a structure with more than one > named member > may have incomplete array type; such a structure (and any union containing, > possibly > recursively, a member that is such a structure) shall not be a member of a > structure or an > element of an array."
you're implying that the point of the plan 9 compilers is to toe the c99 line. also, a pointer to an incomplete type is used in many places in plan 9 libraries. - erik
