On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Charles Forsyth <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:charles.forsyth@gmail.com" target="_blank">charles.forsyth@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Even better might be to do neither: eliminate support for void data, and give the declaration a type that doesn&#39;t provoke so much discussion.<div>It&#39;s just a placeholder.<div class="im"><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 1 July 2012 23:32, Charles Forsyth <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:charles.forsyth@gmail.com" target="_blank">charles.forsyth@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Yes, I was assuming the same approach as for the existing void data declaration, that the structure is given a nominal size,<div>

for just the reasons you give.  (That&#39;s what gcc seems to do.)</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br>I don&#39;t know where this will lead for 8c et al, so I&#39;ll throw it out there anyway in the spirit of placeholders:<div><br></div><div>   int : 0;<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Greg Comeau / 4.3.10.1 with C++0xisms now in beta!</div>
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