http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5997

           Summary: Static arrays with 0 length accepted by compiler
           Product: D
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Windows
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: accepts-invalid
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody@puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: andrej.mitrovich@gmail.com


--- Comment #0 from Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich@gmail.com> 2011-05-13 19:25:14 PDT ---
Is there a use case for 0-length static arrays?

If there's not a use-case, then this should probably be a compiler error:

int[0] logs;  // <- disallow this

void main()
{
    logs = [4];
}

The assignment statement causes a linker error (if you comment it out you won't
get any linker errors):
/+
test.obj(test)  Offset 002DFH Record Type 009D
 Error 16: Index Range
--- errorlevel 1
+/

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Vladimir <thecybershadow@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Vladimir <thecybershadow@gmail.com> 2011-05-13 23:39:57 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> Is there a use case for 0-length static arrays?

I believe they can be used as a value type in an associative array to create a set.

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--- Comment #2 from bearophile_hugs@eml.cc 2011-05-14 02:57:56 PDT ---
One use case are variable-length structs:

struct MyArray(T) {
  size_t len;
  T data[0];

  // access methods here, that use data.offsetof
}

You create such array with a C malloc or GC malloc.

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Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich@gmail.com> 2011-05-14 13:21:39 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > Is there a use case for 0-length static arrays?
> 
> I believe they can be used as a value type in an associative array to create a set.

Ah, you're right. I even forgot about opening this topic which mentioned this
trick:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/A_case_for_valueless_AA_s_133165.html

I'm closing this down.

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