Re: Struct Error

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:37:27 +0000, bart wrote:

[snipped context restored]

   struct scenet *childp;
   struct scenet (*childa)[];
 };

Yet childp is fine, but childa is a gcc compiler error. Why is that?

>
Because it needs to know the size of the type to work out the function
type’s calling convention.

I restored the context you snipped.  There is no function type in the
code Bart was asking about.  childa is defined as a pointer to an
(incomplete) array of struct scenet.

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