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.)

On 1 July 2012 23:22, Comeau At9Fans <comeauat9fans@gmail.com> wrote:

> Many compilers do just that, however, that said, unless the compiler is
> prepared for it, since it effectively yields a struct of zero size which
> normally is a no-go, it could produce bugs involving sizeof, initializers,
> pointer addition et al, even some divisions by zero if the compiler is
> making certain assumptions already, unless it already can have zero length
> objects of this nature for some other reasons.