Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] kernel/sched.c: VLA in middle of struct

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:42:26AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > Anyway, since [] is C99, I thought it preferable to [0] which is a gcc
> > > extension.  However, if C99 is really so braindead as to disallow this
> > > fairly standard trick, so I'm happy to go with the gcc extension.[1]
> >
> > No.  There's a standard way to do that in C99; you can put a struct with
> > that thing into a union.
> 
> Ah, thanks for the clue.
> 
> How's this:
> 
> sched: avoid flexible array member inside struct (gcc extension)
> 
> struct sched_group and struct sched_domain end in 'unsigned long
> cpumask[]' which Jeff Garzik notes is not legal to place inside
> another struct.  It upsets sparse and clang (LLVM's C front end).
> 
> Al Viro pointed out that a union is the Right Way to do this.

Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>