Kenny Tilton <ktilton@nyc.rr.com> writes:
VC++ considers:
struct empty_struct {};
...to be an error. Anyone got libtest.dll? Or should I break down and try Cygwin? Is that what other folks do? Maybe I missed a switch for the C++ compiler?
For the record, I just tried compiling libtest with Visual C++ 2003 and it fails too. It seems that empty structures are not standard C (it's valid C++ though). Which makes me wonder how we should allocate empty structures, since the C and C++ ABI's differ in this aspect (like Rayiner mentioned). Since it's not standard C, but it is standard C++ perhaps we should make empty structures have size and alignment = 1 byte. So for now I'm commenting out this test STRUCT.ALIGNMENT.5 so that libtest is compilable with MSVC++. Is there any useful application of empty structs anyway? -- Luis Oliveira luismbo (@) gmail (.) com Equipa Portuguesa do Translation Project http://www2.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard/po/registry.cgi?team=pt