[cfe-dev] array has incomplete element type

[Csaba Raduly via cfe-dev]

Hi Frank,

Your question would be more appropriate on the cfe-users mailing list.

Have you tried moving the declaration of struct STRUCT STRUCT ( :) )
in of the declaration of frontArray[] ?

Csaba

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 2:03 PM Frank Redeker via cfe-dev
<cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
> Hello, List,
>
> I'm using CLANG (6.0) to analyze C-Code that is written for a Windriver
> Compiler.
> Given the following piece of code.
>
> extern const struct STRUCT Array[];
>
> typedef struct STRUCT {
>         int     Member;
> } STRUCT;
>
>
> int Foo (int i) {
>         return Array[i].Member;
> }
>
> The Windriver compiler compiles this code without any problem (Does the
> Windriver compiler violate an ANSI rule?). Buy when compiling which
> clang it get
> [error: array has incomplete element type 'const struct STRUCT']
>
> (When compiling with clang++ the error goes away)
>
> So my question is. Is there an option to handle the extern array in C
> like in C++.
>
>
> Frank
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