On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM Joseph Myers <josmy...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jul 2025, Aaron Ballman wrote: > > > Question on the .N syntax: I thought I heard that this was something > > GCC could handle, but that it still requires late parsing to ensure > > type information for N is available and that was a problem. e.g., > > > > void func(char *buffer __counted_by(.N * sizeof(.N)), int N); > > The proposed specification for .N in N3188 required the type to be size_t > when not already declared (it also didn't make .N an expression, only > something that could be used directly inside [], so avoiding the syntactic > ambiguity with designated initializers). > Has there been any more thoughts on this RFC?
-bw