Peter Memishian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Correct. But it seems to be a gcc bug. The C-standard allows padding at
> > the end of a structure but from my understanding, a structure like
>
> I could be misremembering, but I thought the Solaris ABI prohibits such
> padding (not that it does you any good ;-)
I don't see any benefit from this kind of padding either.
> >
> > struct xxx {
> > ...
> > type last element;
> > char pad[0];
> > };
>
> FWIW, my recollection is that C99 requires `char pad[]' in that case,
> and that `pad[0]' is a gcc-ism that predates C99.
I know it was wrong when I did write it ;-)
Sometimes things like this happen.
Jörg
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