kerne-2.4.0-test13pre3 with gcc-2.97

Alexandre Oliva aoliva at redhat.com
Mon Dec 25 05:08:08 EST 2000


On Dec 24, 2000, Thomas Sailer <sailer at ife.ee.ethz.ch> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva wrote:

>> This change (and apparently all other changes you've made) are
>> definitely wrong.  Zero-sized arrays as the last element of a
>> structure used to be an extension in GCC 2.95.2, that has been adopted
>> by C99 with a slightly different syntax, that GCC CVS supports: just
>> remove the `0' from between the braces.

> Which is not backward compatible, unfortunately.

Indeed.  I wish we had maintained the old syntax for
backward-compatibility, even if with a deprecation warning.

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