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Re: ridiculous warning or not?

From Andrew Cooper <amc96@cam.ac.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: ridiculous warning or not?
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Organization virginmedia.com
Date 2012-08-21 00:36 +0100

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On 20/08/2012 10:41, kerravon wrote:
> Is this warning considered ridiculous?

No

> 
> I'll stop using that syntax if the compiler is
> more correct than me.
> 
> 
> % cat foo.c
> 
> char f[];

I hope you are not using 'char f[];' where you mean to use 'char * f;',
as they are very different things.

~Andrew

> 
>  
> 
> int main(void) { return (0); }
> 
>  
> 
> % cc foo.c
> 
> "foo.c", line 1: warning: null dimension: f
> 
> 
>  
> 
> % cc -V
> 
> cc: Sun C 5.9 SunOS_sparc Patch 124867-01 2007/07/12
> 
> usage: cc [ options] files.  Use 'cc -flags' for details
> 

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ridiculous warning or not? kerravon <kerravon@w3.to> - 2012-08-20 02:41 -0700
  Re: ridiculous warning or not? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-08-20 07:55 -0400
  Re: ridiculous warning or not? army1987 <army1987@ask-for-it.invalid> - 2012-08-20 19:11 +0000
  Re: ridiculous warning or not? Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2012-08-20 16:09 -0400
    Re: ridiculous warning or not? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-09-07 07:29 -0700
  Re: ridiculous warning or not? Andrew Cooper <amc96@cam.ac.uk> - 2012-08-21 00:36 +0100
  Re: ridiculous warning or not? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-08-21 01:41 +0100
    Re: ridiculous warning or not? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-08-20 18:59 -0700
      Re: ridiculous warning or not? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-09-07 08:03 -0700
        Re: ridiculous warning or not? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-07 14:37 -0700
          Re: ridiculous warning or not? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-09-07 19:17 -0700
            Re: ridiculous warning or not? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-07 19:56 -0700
              Re: ridiculous warning or not? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-09-08 06:30 -0700
    Re: ridiculous warning or not? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-09-07 07:57 -0700
      Re: ridiculous warning or not? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-08 00:25 +0100
        Re: ridiculous warning or not? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-09-07 18:58 -0700
          Re: ridiculous warning or not? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-07 19:26 -0700
            Re: ridiculous warning or not? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-09-08 06:26 -0700
              Re: ridiculous warning or not? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-08 11:33 -0700
                Re: ridiculous warning or not? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-12-17 14:39 -0800
                Re: ridiculous warning or not? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-12-17 15:56 -0800
                Re: ridiculous warning or not? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-12-20 10:31 -0800
                Re: ridiculous warning or not? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-12-20 16:57 -0800
                Re: ridiculous warning or not? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-12-21 03:11 +0000
                Re: ridiculous warning or not? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-12-21 09:06 -0800
          Re: ridiculous warning or not? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-08 03:42 +0100
            Re: ridiculous warning or not? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-09-08 06:01 -0700
              Re: ridiculous warning or not? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-08 14:45 +0100
                Re: ridiculous warning or not? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-08 11:28 -0700
                Re: ridiculous warning or not? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-08 22:53 +0100
  Re: ridiculous warning or not? kerravon <kerravon@w3.to> - 2012-08-21 03:25 -0700
    Re: ridiculous warning or not? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-08-21 11:20 -0700
      Re: ridiculous warning or not? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-08-21 21:07 +0100
        Re: ridiculous warning or not? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-08-21 14:39 -0700
          Re: ridiculous warning or not? Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2012-08-21 22:09 +0000
            Re: ridiculous warning or not? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-08-21 15:13 -0700
              Re: ridiculous warning or not? Fred K <fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com> - 2012-08-22 07:17 -0700

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