Question about genassym, locore.s and 0-sized arrays (showstopper for an icc compiled kernel)

[Alexander Leidinger]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:28:58 -0500
Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> wrote:

> If you're talking FreeBSD 5, you should be able to simply subsitute a
> C99 "flexible array member" (basically replace "[0]" with "[]") and get
> the same effect.  0-length arrays are a gcc extension:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
> 
> Under FreeBSD 4.x, you can't use them because gcc 2.95 only supports
> the gcc extension.  Intel has added support for a lot of gcc extensions
> recently; they may be willing to add this to the list.

Please read my mail again, icc already supports my_array[0], but the
resulting array in the binary has size '1'. The actual showstopper is
the output of genassym.sh. To me it seems it's just a genassym.sh issue,
but I don't really know what's going on in the kernel, so I ask here.

Bye,
Alexander.

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