On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 5:35 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > >> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 2:43 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >>> That is not immediately all that significant but points to subtle >>> incompatibilities between the data models of C and C++. >> >> Indeed - their handling of empty structs is different. But that >> doesn't invalidate my point; how often do you declare a variable that >> has nothing in it? > > In my case, this particular problem caused a bug once some years back.
Once. Probably in your entire career. In my case, never, and I spent about fifteen years of my life writing mostly either C or C++ code. This is NOT common. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list