[tlbuild] lcdf-typetools-2.85 doesn't compile with gcc-3.4.2 on old FreeBSD-5

[Eddie Kohler]

Unfortunately that WOULD have padding at the end -- if not on x86 then on 
others -- and is therefore unacceptable.

Eddie


On 2/7/11 6:45 AM, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Eddie Kohler wrote:
>
>> Does the following work on both platforms?
>>
>> ...
>> char real_data[0]; // but it is almost certainly more
>> };
>>
>> enum {
>> MEMO_SPACE = sizeof(memo_t)
>> };
>>
>> Note different number of characters in real_data
>
> Hi Eddie,
>
> this works with both g++-3.4.6 (linux-x86) and g++-3.4.5 (mingw32 cross
> compilation on linux). Because I vaguely remember some problems with
> size-zero arrays, I have also tried
>
> ...
> char real_data[1]; // but it is almost certainly more
> };
>
> enum {
> MEMO_SPACE = sizeof(memo_t) - 1
> };
>
> which succeeds as well (and I hope yields the same result, i.e., no padding
> at the end).
>
> Regards
> Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de>