Hi alex, This is for my knowlege in which kind of situations you make use of these type of structure definitions. Bansidhar A. Deshpande Telecom Group, HCL Technologies - CTD. Chennai. Mobile : 9840109000 Phone : 044-23728366 Extn : 1324 -----Original Message----- From: Alexandre Courbot [mailto:Alexandre.Courbot@xxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 5:40 PM To: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: C and zero-sized arrays - what is the standard? > Is there a portable way to do this? What is the right form according to the > standards? Forgot to mention I am using gcc 3.3 - as far as I know the [0] form worked fine with 2.95. Alex.