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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: empty structs
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:42:09 -0500
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Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>> Just to throw an idea out: you can also do something like
>>
>> #ifndef NO_POSIX_GOODIES
>> struct credentials {
>> };
>> #else
[...]
> Empty structures are not standard C.

(For those following at home:

	"A structure type describes a sequentially allocated
	 nonempty set of member objects (and, in certain
	 circumstances, an incomplete array), each of which
	 has an optionally specified name and possibly
	 distinct type.")

So I guess future patches following the pattern of v1.7.3-rc0~33^2~13
git wrapper: introduce startup_info struct, 2010-08-05) should be
written like

	struct startup_info {
		char dummy;
	};

Yuck.  Thanks for the pointer.