[Bug 18] New: int foo[0] accept -- what's its semantics?

[Stewart Gordon]

Chris Miller wrote:
>> void main() {
>>     int foo[0];
>> }
>>
>> dmd 0.148 accepts this gdc 0.17 and my 0.18 work in progress both 
>> segv off in gcc land where it's assumed that variables passed into 
>> the middle end all have space associated with them. What are the
>> right semantics for this situation?
> 
> I'd like it to be allowed and completely disable bounds checking on that 
> array, so that the old C trick can work: putting an array as the last 
> field in a struct so that extra memory can be allocated after the struct 
> to add more elements to the array at runtime.
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Is this to support a legacy API, or what?

Stewart.

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