Synopsis

(Required) Flexible array members shall not be declared

Enabled by default

Yes

Severity/Certainty

Medium/Medium

Full description

Flexible array members are declared.

Coding standards

Code examples

The following code example fails the check and will give a warning:

struct example {
  int size;
  int data[];
} example;

void function(void) {
  struct example *e;
}

The following code example passes the check and will not give a warning about this issue:

struct example {
  int size;
  int data[5];
} example;

void function(void) {
  struct example *e;
}