Zero Length Arrays Allowed in C Standard?

[Kenneth L Moore]

In article <2298 at jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> baalke at mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:
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==>I've inherited some C code that had the following declaration in it:
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==>     char tbi[0];
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==>When I tried to compile this using Turbo C v2.0 or VAX C, it was flagged as
==>a fatal error. My question is this: are zero length arrays allowed in the
==>ANSI standard for C?
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If you want to find out if your C code is conservative, run lint on it.
You are much more likely to get transportable code if you do this.

Ken