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Re: When is the complete type of an external definition known?

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Vlad from Moscow <vlad.moscow@mail.ru> writes:
> понедельник, 20 августа 2012 г., 1:56:49 UTC+4 пользователь Ike Naar написал:
>> On 2012-08-19, Vlad from Moscow <vlad.moscow@mail.ru> wrote:
[...]
>>   static int a[];
>> 
>> violates 6.9.2 p3:
>> 
>> "If the declaration of an identifier for an object is a tentative
>> definition and has internal linkage, the declared type shall not be
>> an incomplete type."
>
> I understand paragraph #2 of section 6.9.2 External object definitions
> that says that "If a translation unit contains one or more tentative
> definitions for an identifier, and the translation unit contains no
> external definition for that identifier, then the behavior is exactly
> as if the translation unit contains a file scope declaration of that
> identifier, with the composite type as of the end of the translation
> unit, with an initializer equal to 0."  that in my sample the array
> has complete composite type int [10].

It's paragraph 3 (which Ike Naar quoted) that applies here.  Your
declaration

    static int a[];

is illegal (more precisely a constraint violation).

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
    Will write code for food.
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When is the complete type of an external definition known? Vlad from Moscow <vlad.moscow@mail.ru> - 2012-08-19 13:40 -0700
  Re: When is the complete type of an external definition known? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-08-19 14:06 -0700
    Re: When is the complete type of an external definition known? Vlad from Moscow <vlad.moscow@mail.ru> - 2012-08-19 14:30 -0700
      Re: When is the complete type of an external definition known? Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2012-08-19 21:56 +0000
        Re: When is the complete type of an external definition known? Vlad from Moscow <vlad.moscow@mail.ru> - 2012-08-19 16:42 -0700
          Re: When is the complete type of an external definition known? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-08-19 19:22 -0700
            Re: When is the complete type of an external definition known? Wojtek Lerch <wojtek_l@yahoo.ca> - 2012-08-20 10:57 -0400
              Re: When is the complete type of an external definition known? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-08-20 13:01 -0700
                Re: When is the complete type of an external definition known? Wojtek Lerch <wojtek_l@yahoo.ca> - 2012-08-20 16:58 -0400
              Re: When is the complete type of an external definition known? pacman@kosh.dhis.org (Alan Curry) - 2012-08-21 00:44 +0000
          Re: When is the complete type of an external definition known? Ike Naar <ike@sverige.freeshell.org> - 2012-08-20 05:57 +0000
            Re: When is the complete type of an external definition known? Vlad from Moscow <vlad.moscow@mail.ru> - 2012-08-20 03:22 -0700
              Re: When is the complete type of an external definition known? Ike Naar <ike@sverige.freeshell.org> - 2012-08-20 12:27 +0000
                Re: When is the complete type of an external definition known? Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr> - 2012-08-20 17:04 +0200
                Re: When is the complete type of an external definition known? Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2012-08-20 16:35 +0000
                Re: When is the complete type of an external definition known? Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr> - 2012-08-20 20:43 +0200
          Re: When is the complete type of an external definition known? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-08-20 08:46 -0400
  Re: When is the complete type of an external definition known? Vlad from Moscow <vlad.moscow@mail.ru> - 2012-08-19 14:24 -0700
  Re: When is the complete type of an external definition known? "Ersek, Laszlo" <lacos@caesar.elte.hu> - 2012-08-19 23:36 +0200
    Re: When is the complete type of an external definition known? Vlad from Moscow <vlad.moscow@mail.ru> - 2012-08-19 14:46 -0700

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