On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 12:57:53PM +0100, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> On 10/26/2015 12:47 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> 
> >Because the amount of code that uses this (including GCC itself) is just too
> >huge, so everywhere in the middle-end we also special case last array 
> >members of
> >structs.  While C99+ has flexible array members, e.g. C++ does not, so users
> >are left with using struct { ... type fld[1]; };
> 
> Yes, and that case is documented. However, the issue is arrays declared with
> a larger size than 1 or 0 - is there really code using them as flexible
> array members?

I believe so, though don't have pointers to that right now.  But vaguely
remember we saw various cases of using 2 or other values too.

        Jakub

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