[LLVMbugs] [Bug 3562] New: clarify error on gcc vla-in-struct extension

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http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=3562

           Summary: clarify error on gcc vla-in-struct extension
           Product: clang
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Semantic Analyzer
        AssignedTo: unassignedclangbugs at nondot.org
        ReportedBy: daniel at zuster.org
                CC: llvmbugs at cs.uiuc.edu


clang should give a clearer error on code that uses gcc's "vla-in-struct"
extension (is there a name for it?):
--
ddunbar at milton:gcc$ cat t.c
void f0(int n,...) {
  struct S {
    double          a[n];
  }               s;
  double x = s.a[0];
}
ddunbar at milton:gcc$ clang t.c
t.c:3:21: error: fields must have a constant size
    double          a[n];
                    ^
t.c:5:14: error: subscripted value is neither array nor pointer
  double x = s.a[0];
             ^   ~
2 diagnostics generated.
--

Something like "This gcc extension is not supported, and will hopefully never
be. Change your code you loon." It'd be nice not to get the second error as
well.


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