Hi,
on the heels of the discussion with Joseph, the attached patch removes the
error issued by variable_size, as it appears to be totally useless at this
point. FEs should be responsible for catching errors here.
Tested on x86_64-suse-linux, OK for the mainline?
2011-05-04 Eric Botcazou <ebotca...@adacore.com>
* stor-layout.c (variable_size): Do not issue errors.
--
Eric Botcazou
Index: stor-layout.c
===================================================================
--- stor-layout.c (revision 173209)
+++ stor-layout.c (working copy)
@@ -152,16 +152,6 @@ variable_size (tree size)
that determine sizes for variable size objects. Trust it. */
return size;
- if (lang_hooks.decls.global_bindings_p ())
- {
- if (TREE_CONSTANT (size))
- error ("type size can%'t be explicitly evaluated");
- else
- error ("variable-size type declared outside of any function");
-
- return size_one_node;
- }
-
put_pending_size (save);
return size;
