Re: [9fans] C compiler question

[Roman V Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>]

On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 23:14 -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > Yes, but in my example - sorry - "NeverDefined" doesn't mean "declared and
> > defined elsewhere (or not)" but "not declared .and. not defined".
>
> true enough.  the patch i sent still rejects your construct.
> i'd still be interested to hear a perspective of someone with
> more experience with the c compiler.

rejecting the struct seems like the right thing to do as per
ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf)
sec. 6.7.2.1 para. 2

"A structure or union shall not contain a member with incomplete or function type (hence,
a structure shall not contain an instance of itself, but may contain a pointer to an instance
of itself), except that the last member of a structure with more than one named member
may have incomplete array type; such a structure (and any union containing, possibly
recursively, a member that is such a structure) shall not be a member of a structure or an
element of an array."

Thanks,
Roman.