Re: SWIG: Bug with 'C' arrays of zero size ?

"Alberto Luaces" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.swig
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020, at 10:37, Terry Barnaby wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If you have a data structure like the following all is well:
> 
> struct DataBlock {
>      Header    header;
>      char        data[4];    ///< The packet data
> };
> 
> However if you have a data structure that has a zero length array like 
> the following, SWIG considers the "char data[]" as a pointed to data and 
> tries to delete[] and allocate memory for it.
> 
> struct DataBlock {
>     Header    header;
>      char        data[];    ///< The packet data
> };
> 
> I think this is a bug ?

Are you using C++?  It seems that zero-sized arrays are not allowed:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6180012/array-with-size-0#6180200


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