On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 03:29:10PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I actually meant an enclosing struct. When you're defining a struct
> > member, simply putting the storage after a struct with var array
> > should be good enough. If that doesn't work, quite a few things in
> > the kernel will break.
>
> The unsigned member of a struct has to be the last one, so your struct
> won't work.
I suppose you mean unsized. I remember this working. Maybe I'm
confusing it with zero-sized array. Hmm... gcc doesn't complain about
the following. --std=c99 seems happy too.
#include <stdio.h>
struct A {
int i;
long ar[];
};
struct B {
struct A a;
long ar_storage[32];
};
int main(void)
{
printf("sizeof(A)=%zd sizeof(B)=%zd\n", sizeof(struct A), sizeof(struct B));
return 0;
}
$ ./a.out
sizeof(A)=8 sizeof(B)=264
--
tejun
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