On 02.08.2020 15:57, Taylor R Campbell wrote: > But it sounds like the original motivation is that it triggered > -Wvla...which frankly strikes me as a compiler bug since there's > obviously no actual VLA created in sizeof; as far as I can tell > there's no semantic difference between sizeof(device_t[n]) and > sizeof(device_t) * n. >
This is not true:
#include <stdio.h>
int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
printf("sizeof = %zu\n", sizeof(int[argc]));
return 0;
}
$ ./a.out
sizeof = 4
$ ./a.out 12 3
sizeof = 12
$ ./a.out 12 3 45 6
sizeof = 20
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