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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev compile problem: udevd
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 20:17:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1103573859.5435.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41C70E8B.5030506@2wire.ch>

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 18:40 +0100, Thomas Strösslin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I failed to compile udev-050.
> in udevd.h, the structure hotplug_msg{} contains:
> 
> 	char envbuf[];
> 
> This does not compile on my system (SuSE 7.3, gcc 2.95.3)
> 
> It does compile if you replace "envbuf[]" with "*envbuf"

A variable sized array is not a pointer! You will get a different
sizeof(), which may cause problems.

Kay



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  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-20 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-20 17:40 udev compile problem: udevd Thomas Strösslin
2004-12-20 20:17 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2004-12-20 23:29 ` Dave Dodge
2004-12-21  1:33 ` Kay Sievers

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