# translate-c: Use canonical type of field for flexible array definition · gitcafe/zig

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Commit: 49cb1683ff1f87c3a9af0b564de0aa7a5b4daf7d

Tree: 33a4ef48eb21d006ffe3897f37dd9178d44bef57

Author: Evan Haas

Committer: Evan Haas

## Message

```
translate-c: Use canonical type of field for flexible array definition

This prevents incorrectly casting an ElaboratedType to ArrayType
if the flexible field is a typedef'ed zero-length array

Fixes #16838

```

## Parents

- [bdf5739c0a982d24a722b625a660a15bef617ce9](https://git.cafe/gitcafe/zig/commit/bdf5739c0a982d24a722b625a660a15bef617ce9?format=markdown)

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