Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] replace zero length arrays

[Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 08:18:23AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 09:31:11 +0100
> Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com> wrote:
> 
> > Series-acked-by: Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
> > 
> > Suggest checkpatches to disallow this, if it doesn't already.
> 
> Unfortunately, matching this with awk is too hard. Coccinelle can do it
> but don't want to introduce dependency on that.
> 
> Maybe a compiler flag would be possible, but could not find one.

-pedantic will warn, but to use it without clobbering the build with
warnings we would probably need to qualify all use of non-standard
extensions with the __extension__ keyword.


```
struct foo {
        int a;
        int b;
        char buffer[0];
};
```
zhora ~> gcc -Wall -pedantic oink.c
oink.c:7:14: warning: ISO C forbids zero-size array ‘buffer’ [-Wpedantic]
    7 |         char buffer[0];