Re: [Tinycc-devel] Buiding binutils 2.17 (needs dynamic arrays).

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 02 October 2007 12:19:18 pm Rob Landley wrote:
> Any opinions on how to tackle this one?

Confirmed that gcc makes sizeof() a runtime function in this case:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  int walrus[atoi(argv[1])];
  printf("%d\n", sizeof(walrus));
  return 0;
}

Running "./a.out 42" produced 168.

Oh yeah, that's gonna be fun...

Rob
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