Andrew Haley wrote: >>> Obviously I can't see for looking; can you please point me to the precise >>> chapter/page/paragraph/line that I should have found earlier? > > "Zero-length arrays are allowed in GNU C. They are very useful as the > last element of a structure ..." > > That doesn't in any way imply that the last element of a struct is the only > circumstance in which you may use a zero-length array.
*boggle* Yes, I must have been tired! I repeatedly scanned that as "Zero-length arrays are allowed in GNU C [ ... eyes or perhaps brain go blurry about here ... ] as the last element of a structure which is really a header for a variable-length object" > Yes. That's what is usually done: all you have to do is fix the back end. :) Just to be helpful, I added a few extra words to the documentation for ASM_OUTPUT_COMMON in my revised patch. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-05/msg01545.html cheers, DaveK
