Static initialization of flexible array members

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Hi!
In the user's manual, section GCC extensions not implemented yet, I read:

clang does not support static initialization of flexible array members. This appears to be a rarely used extension, but could be implemented pending user demand.

I interpret this to say that the following program would not work, because bar would not be allocated space for an array y of three elements:

  struct foo {
           int x;
          int y;
  };

  struct foo bar = {1, {2, 3, 4}};

However, testing shows that it does work and there is in fact a similar test case (clang/test/Sema/flexible-array-init.c at master · llvm-mirror/clang · GitHub). A warning "flexible array initialization is a GNU extension" is printed only if -Wpedantic is enabled.

Am I reading the documentation wrong or is this a documentation error?

Best Regards,
Anton Eliasson