Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!psuecl!c9h
From: c9h@psuecl.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Zero Length Arrays Allowed in C Standard?DOWN
Message-ID: <70691@psuecl.bitnet>
Date: 7 Dec 89 20:32:07 GMT
References: <480@codonics.COM> <2678@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>
Organization: Engineering Computer Lab, Pennsylvania State University
Lines: 12

There is a generic problem with zero-sized arrays that everyone seems to
be ignoring:  I see nowhere a definition of what *order* C is to store
variables in.  Even the use a previously mentioned as being valid -- using
it to change the size of a malloc'd structure to allocate space for an
array of the size needed -- would be affected by this.

Am I overlooking something, or is storage order actually undefined?

--
- Charles Martin Hannum II       "Klein bottle for sale ... inquire within."
    (That's Charles to you!)     "To life immortal!"
  c9h@psuecl.{bitnet,psu.edu}    "No noozzzz izzz netzzzsnoozzzzz..."
  cmh117@psuvm.{bitnet,psu.edu}  "Mem'ry, all alone in the moonlight ..."