Zero Length Arrays Allowed in C Standard?

Bret Orsburn bret at codonics.COM
Sat Dec 9 08:00:46 AEST 1989


>Never mind that the committee included at least one feeping
>creature, it was not their business to include every feature that
>someone had dreamt up for a C compiler.

There's a false dichotomy in there somewhere.

There must be some ground between mandating a feature and forbiding it,
or none of the unique features of any architecture can be entailed in
a conforming implementation.

(Yes, I *will* shut up very soon now :-)

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