[cfe-dev] Handling of empty structs in C

[Sean McBride]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2013 17:33:37 +0100, Andy Gibbs said:

>Long story short, I'm ok with the fact that C and C++ handle empty structs 
>differently, but I was somewhat challenged by my colleague's complaint that 
>surely the compiler should have given a warning that the structure of 
>'struct test' varies depending on the language it is used from

Whenever you think "why doesn't the compiler warn here?!", create a test case (as you did) and try compiling it with -Weverything, which enables literally all warnings.

Cheers,

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