Zero Length Arrays Allowed in C Standard?

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In article <2298 at jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> baalke at mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:
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:I've inherited some C code that had the following declaration in it:
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:     char tbi[0];
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:When I tried to compile this using Turbo C v2.0 or VAX C, it was flagged as
:a fatal error. My question is this: are zero length arrays allowed in the
:ANSI standard for C?

No. Here is the quote from the standard of Dec 7, 1988 (page 68, line 3):

    The expression delimited by [ and ] (which specifies the size of the
    of an array) shall be an integral constant expression that has a value
    greater than zero.

I believe this one of the hot issues debated by the committee.

  Marv Rubinstein