On 14 June 2015 at 10:02, Sharma, Shashank <shashank.sharma at intel.com> wrote: > Hi, Emil Velikov > > The reason behind a zero sized array is that we want to use the same variable > for various color correction possible across various driver . > Due to current blob implementation, it doesnât look very efficient to have > another pointer in the structure, so we are left with this option only. > Can you elaborate (to suggest any reading material) about those inefficiencies ?
> I guess as long as we are using gcc (which is for all Linux distributions), > we are good. The size of the zero sized array will be zero, so no alignment > errors as such. > Note that most of the DRM subsystem code is dual-licensed. As such it is used in other OSes - Solaris, *BSD, not to mention the work (in progress) about using clang/LLVM to build the kernel. In the former case not everyone uses GCC. Thanks Emil
