linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array

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Message-ID: <159048016213.21698.5509230411205527625.b4-ty@ti.com>
Date:   Tue, 26 May 2020 14:16:23 +0530
From:   Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>
To:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
CC:     Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array

On Thu, 7 May 2020 14:00:33 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> 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[];
> };
> 
> [...]

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git cfi/next, thanks!


Regards
-- 
Vignesh