Quoting Richard Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 12/7/05, Morten Welinder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > He is kind of right, though. Outside struct (or perhaps union), > > zero-sized arrays > > make little sense and could be rejected. Or else I am missing something > too. > > Well, as nearly all gcc language extensions, the extension specification > is not a formal specification, but more like handwaving ... > > Rather than restricting the extension, we should consider deprecating it > (for C++!) in 4.1 and remove it from 4.2. I see no use for it in C++ code > and recent actions were in favor of removing C++ language extensions.
Unless they are needed for portability with C headers. POD structs and basic types should be consistent between C and C++. Michael
