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Re: is this code alignment-kosher and strictly legal?

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On 2011-01-24, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> wrote:
> s5n <sgbeal@googlemail.com> writes:
>> Consider this trivial struct:
>>
>> struct cson_string
>> {
>>     unsigned int length;
>> };
>>
>> [bobbit pointer calisthenics]
>
> They'd save themselves a lot of trouble by changing the above to
>
> struct cson_string
> {
>         unsigned int length;
>         char str[];
> };
>
> but there might be systems they care about where flexible array members
> aren't supported (MSVC?  When is MS going to get their sh*t together and
> implement C99?)

Probalby never.  Too much work fixing the standard library.  I've been
bit a couple of times when using GTK on windows because the documentation
assumes a C99 standard library (one is the function that wraps strftime)

GCC (mingw) works great for compiling windows programs, it's reportedly a bit
of a pain to install on windows, I use it (i586mingwgcc) on linux to compile
windows programs. 

There's reportedly work on an open c99 standard library for windows
but I've not been following it 

Microsoft gave up on C years ago, soon after they started bastardising
Java.

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