https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66661
--- Comment #10 from joseph at codesourcery dot com <joseph at codesourcery dot com> --- On Thu, 25 Jun 2015, P at draigBrady dot com wrote: > I'm not understanding completely TBH. Are flexible array members not special? > Should the optimizations be restricted on access through the flexible array, > because I presume most/all existing allocation code is not considering this > alignment/padding issue. I certainly didn't notice any examples when looking > into a workaround which I came up with independently. For my reference there > are some notes RE GCC's divergence from C99 re padding and flexi arrays at: > https://sites.google.com/site/embeddedmonologue/home/c-programming/data-alig That page doesn't exist - I assume you mean: https://sites.google.com/site/embeddedmonologue/home/c-programming/data-alignment-structure-padding-and-flexible-array-member That page is over ten years out of date - it's quoting the wording in C99 as it was before it was corrected by TC2 (published 2004-11-15). You should look at the post-TC2 wording rather than the old wording with various defects in it.
