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From: Mohammad Abdul Awal <mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] ethdev: Add metadata flow and action
 items support
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 17:58:36 +0100
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On 06/04/2018 16:57, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 06/04/2018 15:47, Mohammad Abdul Awal:
>> On 05/04/2018 17:49, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>> 05/04/2018 15:51, Declan Doherty:
>>>> +struct rte_flow_item_metadata {
>>>> +       uint32_t id;            /**< field identifier */
>>>> +       uint32_t size;          /**< field size */
>>>> +       uint8_t bytes[];        /**< field value */
>>>> +};
>>> Spotted C99 syntax of flexible array.
>>> Are we OK with all supported compilers?
>>>
>> Used "uint8_t *bytes;" instead of "uint8_t bytes[];"
> Why this change? It is changing the size of the structure, isn't it?
It does change the size. I also agree with Adrien's comment as he 
mentioned in the previous mail.