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

[Alexander Leidinger]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 09:55:57 -0700
Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at xcllnt.net> wrote:

> Interesting, What does icc do with:
> 
> struct {
> 	int tag;
> 	char obj[];
> } foo;
> 
> And what does the sizeof() operator give.

---snip---
% <marcel.c 
#include <stdio.h>

struct {
        int tag;
        char obj[];
} foo;

int main(void) {
        struct foo bar;

        printf("%d\n", sizeof(struct foo));
        printf("%d\n", sizeof(bar));
        return 0;
}


% icc marcel.c
marcel.c(9): error: incomplete type is not allowed
        struct foo bar;
                   ^

marcel.c(11): warning #70: incomplete type is not allowed
        printf("%d\n", sizeof(struct foo));
                              ^

compilation aborted for marcel.c (code 2)

% <marcel.c  
#include <stdio.h>

struct {
        int tag;
        char obj[];
} foo;

int main(void) {
        printf("%d\n", sizeof(struct foo));
        return 0;
}

% icc marcel.c
marcel.c(9): warning #70: incomplete type is not allowed
        printf("%d\n", sizeof(struct foo));
                              ^
% ./a.out     
0
---snip---

Bye,
Alexander.

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