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Re: C language declaration "bugs"

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Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:

> Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:
>> Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> writes:
> [...]
>>> I can't find any options to express dynamic arrays in structs.
>>
>> No, you can't, other than the "struct hack" of putting a flexible array
>> member (i.e. an incomplete array declaration) as the last member.
>
> I think the term "struct hack" generally refers to the old technique of
> defining an array member of length 0 or 1 at the end of a structure and
> treating it as a longer array.  Flexible array members, added in C99,
> were intended to *replace* the struct hack.

Yes, it does.  I meant to imply that it had been sanctioned with the new
syntax but I don't think that came out.

-- 
Ben.

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C language declaration "bugs" Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2016-10-11 05:17 -0700
  Re: C language declaration "bugs" Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-10-11 13:58 +0100
    Re: C language declaration "bugs" Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2016-10-11 06:47 -0700
      Re: C language declaration "bugs" Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-10-11 15:03 +0100
        Re: C language declaration "bugs" Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2016-10-11 07:41 -0700
          Re: C language declaration "bugs" BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-10-11 16:31 +0100
        Re: C language declaration "bugs" Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-10-11 10:01 -0700
          Re: C language declaration "bugs" Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-10-11 19:10 +0100
  Re: C language declaration "bugs" BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-10-11 14:14 +0100

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