On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 01:36:49PM -0700, Martin Sebor wrote: > >>The flexible array addition looks great to me. Thank you! > > > >Great. I'll commit the patch. > > Actually, there is one other thing that might be wort mentioning > about flexible array members. > > The type and mangling of flexible array members has changed. While > in GCC 5 and prior the type of a flexible array member is an array > of zero elements (a GCC extension), in 6 it is that of an array of > an unspecified bound (i.e., T[] as opposed to T[0]). This is > a silent ABI change with no -fabi-version/-Wabi option.
Aha. I think you're better-suited to document this than I am. Marek