On 03/13/2012 10:15 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 08:44:26PM -0700, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> +/* This is the in memory structure of the objio_segment
>> + *
>> + * struct __alloc_objio_segment {
>> + * struct objio_segment olseg;
>> + * struct ore_dev *ods[numdevs];
>> + * struct ore_comp comps[numdevs];
>> + * } *aolseg;
>> + * NOTE: The code as above compiles and runs perfectly. It is elegant,
>> + * type safe and compact.
>
> In which type system? Not C99 - there variably-modified types are not
> allowed as structure or union members...
Yes. It's not C99. It's a GCC extension that's also supported by
some other compilers.
But the Kernel is full of GCC extensions. Not like this is the
first one.
Thanks
Boaz
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