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Re: Does a zero-sized object in BSS go away?
Kazu Hirata wrote:
> Hi Geoff,
>
> > The linker should assign an address to it. However, some object file
> > formats can't represent zero-sized common objects, in which case the
> > assembler should probably report an error if someone tries to create one.
>
> Thanks. That means some valid C using a zerosized object program
> may not be represented in those formats. Sigh...
How do you construct a zero sized object in valid C?
Thiemo