Re: [RP] patches to make it compile with very old compilers

[Matthias Kilian]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 08:11:26AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> * Matthias Kilian <address@hidden> [090719 09:47]:
> > For arrays of unspecified length (mentioned in an earlier mail,
> > IIRC): I think something like
> >
> >     struct foo {
> >             int bar;
> >             char baz[];
> >     };
> >
> > can easily be replaced by
> >
> >     struct foo {
> >             int bar;
> >             char baz[0];
> >     };
> >
> > without semantic changes (i.e. sizeof (struct foo) is the same for
> > both variants).
> 
> Note that this is an gcc extension. So while it will make it work
> with older gcc compilers, it might cause to break with other compilers,
> even other up-to-date ones.

Ah, in this case, your approach (using a 1-sized array) is of course
better.