[LLVMdev] variable sized array

[Eugene Toder]

uint64_t MemberOffsets[];

is a C99 way of doing it (and the only standard way), but it's not a legal C++.

Eugene

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Duncan Sands <baldrick at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi Yuanfang,
>
>> just a quick question, in llvm::TargetData,
>>
>> uint64_t MemberOffsets[1];  // variable sized array!
>>
>> MemberOffsets has two elements, why it's variable sized ?
>
> when a StructLayout object is allocated (in TargetData::getStructLayout),
> extra memory is allocated, more than that given by the size of the type.
> The extra memory is interpreted as being part of the MemberOffsets array,
> and is used for storing additional member offsets beyond the first one.
>
> This kind of trick generates warnings with gcc-4.5.  Maybe it can be done
> better.  I thought you were supposed to use
>   uint64_t MemberOffsets[];
> but perhaps I am mistaken.
>
> Ciao,
>
> Duncan.
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