Zero Length Arrays Allowed in C Standard?

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Sat Dec 2 12:18:30 AEST 1989


In article <5486 at sdcc6.ucsd.edu> bruno at sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Bruce W. Mohler) writes:
>In article <11715 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> >I'm POC for a zero-sized object special interest group,
> >but frankly there has been little activity since the
> >committee's consensus was clearly against such objects.
>Wouldn't this kind of group, because of its purpose, have 
>zero members?  (Not counting the POC (which is, after all,
>just a pointer)   :-)

One nifty use for zero-sized objects would be to store the information
content of postings like that :-)

Anybody remember the Signetics WOM ad?



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