Re: More proof of errors going uncorrected among the "regs"

Tim Rentsch wrote:
Eric Sosman <esosman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

pete wrote:
I meant that I would have recognized
int array[];
as a valid example
of a declaration of an object with incomplete type.

I've worked with code that had an array declared like that.
The object was defined in another translation unit.
This is one of those areas of the language where my
footing is a little uncertain, but I think that a translation
unit containing `int array[];' at file scope and with no
further declaration of `array' is in error, and a diagnostic
is required.

I think not. For 'static int array[];', yes. Without the
static, there is the example in 6.9.2 p 5:

EXAMPLE 2 If at the end of the translation unit containing

int i[];

the array i still has incomplete type, the implicit initializer causes
it to have one element, which is set to zero on program startup.

Hmm. Well, as I said, "This is one of those areas of the
language where my footing is a little uncertain." Looks like
it was a good thing I said so ...

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