Flexible array members: make type checking aware and fix bounds checking #6788
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Type checking must be ready to handle type changes between declaration
and definition, which b16c7d7 introduced. Also, bounds checking must
not use
size_of_expr
with these as 24eba85 rightly introduced adistinction between "sizeof" and the actual object size as mandated by
the C standard.
Fixes: #6787