Zero Length Arrays Allowed?

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From: Ron Baalke
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1989 19:03

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I've inherited some C code that had the following declaration in it:

     char tbi[0];

When I tried to compile this using Turbo C v2.0 and VAX C, it was flagged as
a fatal error. My question is this: are zero length arrays allowed in the
ANSI standard for C?

 Ron Baalke                       |    baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov 
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