Comment 12 for bug 15293

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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:13:48 +0000
From: Scott James Remnant <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>, Adam Heath <email address hidden>
Cc: Andreas Jochens <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#299699: dpkg: FTBFS (amd64/gcc-4.0): array type has
 incomplete element type

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On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 17:48 -0600, Adam Heath wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Andreas Jochens wrote:
>=20
> > the latest version of gcc-4.0 is even more restrictive than the previou=
s
> > ones. There is a new error message 'array type has incomplete element t=
ype'
> > for constructs like 'extern struct st x[];' when 'struct st' has not
> > been defined.
> >
> > The attached patch includes the patch from BTS bug #282669. This part h=
as
> > already been applied to 'experimental' (thanks!).

> I don't agree with the patch; move the struct definition.
>=20
The fieldinfo struct definition includes members of a function typedef
which have struct fieldinfo pointers as arguments.

Moving the definition of the extern arrays to the bottom of the file
(while retaining the fieldinfo struct prototype at the top) is the right
solution.

Scott
--=20
Have you ever, ever felt like this?
Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?

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