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Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 15:28:30 +0200
From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@...il.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@...ltek.com>,
Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@...ltek.com>,
linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] wireless: realtek: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com> writes:
> The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
> extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
> variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
> introduced in C99:
>
> struct foo {
> int stuff;
> struct boo array[];
> };
>
> By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning
> in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which
> will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being
> inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.
Preferred by who exactly?
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