https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82679
Bug ID: 82679 Summary: Uses of typedefs of arrays of _Atomic-qualified types are rejected Product: gcc Version: unknown Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: olivier.delande.spam at googlemail dot com Target Milestone: --- Created attachment 42445 --> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=42445&action=edit minimal example reproducing the problem Consider the following minimal program (also attached to this report): typedef _Atomic int my_array[42]; my_array x; int main(void) { return 0; } When compiling this program with gcc -std=c11 test.c I get the output: test.c:2:10: error: ‘_Atomic’-qualified array type my_array x; ^ GCC complains that x's array type is qualified with _Atomic, but I believe that what is so qualified is the element type, not the array type (which would indeed be illegal). The program should be compiled without generating any error. For completeness, here is the output of gcc -v -std=c11 test.c Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-5/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-5 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-libmpx --enable-plugin --with-system-zlib --disable-browser-plugin --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-gtk-cairo --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-5-amd64/jre --enable-java-home --with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-5-amd64 --with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-5-amd64 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --enable-objc-gc --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5) COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-v' '-std=c11' '-mtune=generic' '-march=x86-64' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/cc1 -quiet -v -imultiarch x86_64-linux-gnu test.c -quiet -dumpbase test.c -mtune=generic -march=x86-64 -auxbase test -std=c11 -version -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Wformat-security -o /tmp/ccnPUUlu.s GNU C11 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5) version 5.4.0 20160609 (x86_64-linux-gnu) compiled by GNU C version 5.4.0 20160609, GMP version 6.1.0, MPFR version 3.1.4, MPC version 1.0.3 GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=100 --param ggc-min-heapsize=131072 ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/local/include/x86_64-linux-gnu" ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/../../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/include" #include "..." search starts here: #include <...> search starts here: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/include /usr/local/include /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/include-fixed /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/include End of search list. GNU C11 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5) version 5.4.0 20160609 (x86_64-linux-gnu) compiled by GNU C version 5.4.0 20160609, GMP version 6.1.0, MPFR version 3.1.4, MPC version 1.0.3 GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=100 --param ggc-min-heapsize=131072 Compiler executable checksum: 20effb81769d6418d1599a71173c569c test.c:2:10: error: ‘_Atomic’-qualified array type my_array x; ^