[Issue 5997] Static arrays with 0 length accepted by compiler

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Sat May 14 03:02:05 PDT 2011


http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5997


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--- Comment #2 from bearophile_hugs at eml.cc 2011-05-14 02:57:56 PDT ---
One use case are variable-length structs:

struct MyArray(T) {
  size_t len;
  T data[0];

  // access methods here, that use data.offsetof
}

You create such array with a C malloc or GC malloc.

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