Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>C-99 requires a fully specified type before the unspecified array (and
>requires said array to be the last element in the structure). So this
>example is *not* valid in C99, but the following would be:
>
>struct foo {
> int bar;
> char array[];
>};
>
>[Which makes sense; it forces a structure to have a non-zero size.]
Although there has been some discussion in the committee about allowing
zero-sized objects in C, the standard doesn't allow them. This is perhaps
why it doesn't follow gcc's [0] syntax for variable length arrays at the
end of structures.
Tony.
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