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From: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Zero Length Arrays Allowed in C Standard?
Message-ID: <8129@cg-atla.UUCP>
Date: 4 Dec 89 16:44:55 GMT
References: <2298@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <11715@smoke.BRL.MIL> <480@codonics.COM> <1989Dec2.210042.12668@twwells.com>
Reply-To: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
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In article <1989Dec2.210042.12668@twwells.com> bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:
>In article <480@codonics.COM> bret@codonics.com (Bret Orsburn) writes:
>: >No; Standard C does not support zero-sized objects.
>:


Excuse me, but I must ask a stupid question. Why the !@#$ would anyone even want
to declare an array of zero size ???? Isn't that rather similar to a pointer
to the same type of object??  If so, what is wrong with declaring a pointer
rather than an empty array ??

I don't want to get flamed for this questin, but I would like an answer from one
of the gurus (Doug Gwyn, Chris Torek, Henry Spencer, etc.)!

Fred