Re: [ANN] Lua 5.4.0 (rc3) now available

[Gé Weijers <ge@...>]

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 7:21 AM Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

> 'offsetof' would be better. And gcc allows 'char bytes[0];' or 'char bytes[];' .
>
> It's C99 standard, but MSVC doesn't support it :(

It is not C89. As much as feasible, we try to stick to C89 (because
of MSVC and other strange platforms).

It's also not valid C++, although g++ accepts it (it issues a warning with the "-pedantic" flag set).

So, a very standards-compliant C++ compiler would rightly choke on this.

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Gé

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