--- Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [ You break threading BTW ] > On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 16:38 +0100, Ashok Sharma > wrote: > > --- Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 15:44 +0100, Ashok Sharma > > > wrote: > > > [...] > > > > The reason is that GCC does not recognise some > > > > obsolete code like the following > > > > > > > > struct x y[] > [....] > > > which is plain simply wrong since this was and > is > > > 100% legal C-code. > > > Read and understand the error message. > [...] > > Do visit the link given below > > > > > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2005-02/4663.html > > Yes. Did you follow the link there to > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-02/msg00053.html? > > So gcc's error message is > ---- snip ---- > [...]: error: array type has incomplete element type > ---- snip ---- > > So one declares an array without the declaration of > the struct before. > Before apparently gcc tolerated this (and issued > eventually a warning) > and gcc-4>whatever> now issues an error there. > So the solution is to #include the .h file with the > declaration (or do > whatever is approriate to get the compiler to know > the struct). > > And I can't find any hint or reason why arrays of > struct should no > longer be declarable (where pointers to arrays of > structs are). > > Bernd Blame it on the Standards - (if I remember correctly) newer ANSI C standard has made this change - I read somewhere but am not able to get the Link now - Best Ashok > -- > Firmix Software GmbH > http://www.firmix.at/ > mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 > 7890849-55 > Embedded Linux Development and Services > > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux > kernel. > Archive: > http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
