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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 16:19:23 +0100
From: Thomas Sailer <sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch>
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To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
CC: Kaoru Fukui <k_fukui@highway.ne.jp>, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org,
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Subject: Re: kerne-2.4.0-test13pre3 with gcc-2.97
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Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>
> On Dec 23, 2000, Kaoru Fukui <k_fukui@highway.ne.jp> wrote:
>
> > -             unsigned char b[0];
> > +             unsigned char *b;
>
> This change (and apparently all other changes you've made) are
> definitely wrong.  Zero-sized arrays as the last element of a
> structure used to be an extension in GCC 2.95.2, that has been adopted
> by C99 with a slightly different syntax, that GCC CVS supports: just
> remove the `0' from between the braces.

Which is not backward compatible, unfortunately. So the
backward compatible fix would be "unsigned char b[1];".

Tom

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