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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>
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Subject: Re: Compiler problems with zero-length array in the middle of a struct
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On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:47:26AM +0100, Carsten Langgaard wrote:

> Some compiler reject a zero-length array in the middle of a structure,
> and report it as an error.
> So could we please redo the change, that has recently been done to
> include/linux/raid/md_p.h (see patch below).

Hmm...  What compiler version is that?  The gcc documentation explicitly
permits empty arrays.

  Ralf