Re: orafce does NOT build with Sun Studio compiler

From: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Mayuresh Nirhali" <Mayuresh(dot)Nirhali(at)sun(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: orafce does NOT build with Sun Studio compiler
Date: 2008-06-05 06:30:56
Message-ID: 36e682920806042330l5afa702an6bb785b65b2227b9@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:18 AM, Mayuresh Nirhali
<Mayuresh(dot)Nirhali(at)sun(dot)com> wrote:
>> Most C compilers don't like that either. The standard locution is
>> something like
>>
>> char data[1]; /* VARIABLE LENGTH ARRAY */
>>
>
> So, this is the only issue with Sun Studio compilation of orafce.

Well, it's likely an issue with most commercial compilers. Accepting
an array of undefined-length in this way is non-standard and is a GCC
extension.

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