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R. Silva wrote: >> The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language >> extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare >> variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array >> member[1][2], >> introduced in C99: >> >> struct foo { >>          int stuff; >>          struct boo array[]; >> }; >> >> By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning >> in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which >> will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being >> inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on. >> >> Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by >> this change: >> >> "Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator >> may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of >> zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1] >> >> This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle. >> >> [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html >> [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 >> [3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") >> >> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva > > Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross Applied to for-linus-5.6. -boris