[cfe-dev] static char const []

[Steve Naroff]

On Dec 9, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:

>
> On Dec 8, 2007, at 6:59 AM, Steve Naroff wrote:
>
>> This is a missing feature that will be added later today...
>>
>> I need to review a patch by Anders Carlsson that fixes this missing
>> feature...
>
> Thanks for looking into this Steve and Anders.  When this happens,  
> please verify that the initializer also gets the appropriate type.   
> Specifically, there should be an implicit cast from pointer to char  
> to an array of char, and the type of that cast needs to have the  
> appropriate array size.
>
> Thanks for diving in Steve,
>

No problem. I started looking into this today.

I expect to have my arms around it tomorrow (and hope to commit a  
modified version of Anders patch)...

snaroff

> -Chris
>
>>
>> Thanks for the bug,
>>
>> snaroff
>>
>> On Dec 8, 2007, at 5:33 AM, Alexey Zakhlestin wrote:
>>
>>> $ cat test.c
>>> int main(void)
>>> {
>>> 	static char const test[] = "test";
>>> }
>>>
>>> $ clang -fsyntax-only test.c
>>> test.c:3:20: error: variable has incomplete type 'char const []'
>>>      static char const test[] = "test";
>>>                        ^
>>> 1 diagnostic generated.
>>>
>>>
>>> gcc-4.0 takes this construction easily.
>>> originally found in bison-generated source
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Alexey Zakhlestin
>>> http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/
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