Re: 2.1.114 fails build on i386

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Tue, 4 Aug 1998 17:25:48 -0700 (PDT)


On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Michael Riepe wrote:
>
> Empty structs (or initializers) aren't legal (ANSI) C, nor are they
> mentioned as a "C extension" anywhere in the GCC documentation. The
> only thing GCC explicitly allows is an empty _array_ at the end of a
> struct.

Whatever we feed the compiler, it is never acceptable to dump core. So gcc
has a bug. Then I certainly agree that you can debate whether it should
allow them or not. Historically gcc _has_ allowed them (it's just that
inside other structures they can't be initialized..)

Linus

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