Re: emacs-28 9c222b9: Port to C compilers that lack size-0 arrays

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2021 08:46:23 -0800
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> 
> What I experienced was a ton of diagnostics with both the Oracle Solaris 
> and the IBM AIX C compilers, which made it difficult for me to see the 
> real problems on those platforms (of which there were some).

Any reason why we should be concerned about these two platforms?  They
are proprietary compilers on proprietary OSes.

> Conforming to the C standard doesn't affect behavior here (it possibly 
> doesn't even change the machine code, though I didn't check this) so I 
> considered the change to be a safe prophylactic.

Famous last words.

Please always raise the issue on the list before installing such
non-trivial changes on the release branch.