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From: bret@codonics.COM (Bret Orsburn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Zero Length Arrays Allowed in C Standard?
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Date: 1 Dec 89 19:32:02 GMT
References: <2298@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <11715@smoke.BRL.MIL>
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In article <11715@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <2298@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:
>>are zero length arrays allowed in the ANSI standard for C?
>
>No; Standard C does not support zero-sized objects.
>

Aargh! Whatever happened to "don't break existing code"?!

What was the rationale behind this (IMHO) arbitrary obstruction?




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