[PATCH v2] uapi: fix __DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY for C++

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__DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(T, member) macro expands to

	struct {
		struct {} __empty_member;
		T member[];
	};

which is subtly wrong in C++ because sizeof(struct{}) is 1 not 0,
changing UAPI structures layouts.

This can be fixed by expanding to

	T member[];

Now g++ doesn't like "T member[]" either throwing errors on code like
this:

	struct S {
		union {
			T1 member1[];
			T2 member2[];
		};
	};

or

	struct S {
		T member[];
	};

So use

	T member[0];

which seems to work and does the right thing wrt structure layout.

Fix header guard while I'm at it.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
---

 include/uapi/linux/stddef.h |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/include/uapi/linux/stddef.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/stddef.h
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@
  * struct, it needs to be wrapped in an anonymous struct with at least 1
  * named member, but that member can be empty.
  */
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+#define __DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(T, member)		\
+	T member[0]
+#else
 #define __DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(TYPE, NAME)	\
 	struct { \
 		struct { } __empty_ ## NAME; \
@@ -49,3 +53,5 @@
 #ifndef __counted_by
 #define __counted_by(m)
 #endif
+
+#endif



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