Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 15:56:13 -0400 (EDT) From: zhihuizhang <bf20761@binghamton.edu> To: hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: linker set defintion (ls_item) Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.L3.93.980613155010.26627A-100000@bingsun1>
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I am reading freeBSD source code concerning the linker set which I believe
is a set of *addresses* of similar symbols. The linker set structure is
defined in kernel.h as:
struct linker_set {
int ls_length;
const void * ls_item[1];
}
The value of ls_item should be the address of an array of pointers. Since
the size of this array is not fixed, I wonder why it is not defined as:
struct linker_set [
int ls_length;
const void ** ls_item;
}
This may have something to do with the C compiler. I hope some C expert
can give me a hint. Thanks in advance.
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Zhihui Zhang
Department of Computer Science
State University of New York at Binghamton
Web Site: http://cs.binghamton.edu/~zzhang
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