Even better might be to do neither: eliminate support for void data, and give the declaration a type that doesn't provoke so much discussion. It's just a placeholder. On 1 July 2012 23:32, Charles Forsyth wrote: > Yes, I was assuming the same approach as for the existing void data > declaration, that the structure is given a nominal size, > for just the reasons you give. (That's what gcc seems to do.) >