RE: [avr-gcc-list] Re: zero length array in nocommon

[Weddington, Eric]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
> address@hidden 
> [mailto:address@hidden
> org] On Behalf Of David Brown
> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 8:47 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [avr-gcc-list] Re: zero length array in nocommon
> 
> Weddington, Eric wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >> -----Original Message----- From: 
> >> address@hidden 
> >> [mailto:address@hidden org]
> >> On Behalf Of Ruud Vlaming Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 3:45
> >> AM To: address@hidden Subject: Re: [avr-gcc-list] Re: zero
> >> length array in nocommon
> >> 
> >> My question was, why is there a difference in behaviour, and i 
> >> hoped somebody could shine some light on this. But maybe it is like
> >> J"org says, just a bug.
> > 
> > You're probably the first to discover such a difference. At least on
> > the AVR toolchain anyway.
> 
> A brief test shows that the same difference exists when 
> compiling with 
> gcc for the ColdFire (I don't remember the gcc version 
> off-hand).  It is 
> therefore not an avr-gcc specific feature.

Then I would hazard a guess and say that it's probably NOT a bug. I know that 
the Coldfire port is very well maintained these days, and if it were a bug, 
then it probably would've been fixed already.