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Re: One works, the other doesn't?

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: One works, the other doesn't?
Date 2019-11-20 11:14 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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jak <nospam@please.ty> writes:

> Il 08/11/2019 01:02, Ben Bacarisse ha scritto:
>> jak <nospam@please.ty> writes:
<cut>
>>> typedef struct LIST
>>> {
>>>      char *str;
>>>      int count;
>>>      struct LIST *pMin, *pMaj;
>>> } Lista;
>>>
>>> Lista *BuildList(char *str)
>>> {
>>>      Lista *lRet = malloc(sizeof(Lista));
>>>      if(lRet != NULL)
>>>      {
>>>          lRet->str = malloc((strlen(str) + 1) * sizeof(str[0]));
>>
>> You could avoid doing two allocation by using a C99 flexible array
>> member:
>
> I know but unfortunately I can't afford to choose which compiler to
> use and during my work I meet really old compilers, so I tend to
> ignore the new features.

There's a very old trick to do the same thing:

  typedef struct LIST
  {
       int count;
       struct LIST *pMin, *pMaj;
       char str[1];
  } Lista;

Then you over-allocate the struct and store the string in-place, so to
speak.  Of course it is technically undefined to access elements of the
str member with indexes > 1, but it was (and is) such a widely-used hack
that I would be surprised if any compiler did not take the possibility
into account.

<cut>
-- 
Ben.

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One works, the other doesn't? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-11-03 17:39 -0500
  Re: One works, the other doesn't? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-11-04 00:20 +0000
  Re: One works, the other doesn't? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2019-11-04 06:53 +0000
  Re: One works, the other doesn't? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-11-04 09:45 -0500
    Re: One works, the other doesn't? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-11-05 10:34 -0500
      Re: One works, the other doesn't? mark.bluemel@gmail.com - 2019-11-05 07:45 -0800
        Re: One works, the other doesn't? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-11-05 10:53 -0500
          Re: One works, the other doesn't? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2019-11-05 08:04 -0800
            Re: One works, the other doesn't? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-11-05 11:29 -0500
              Re: One works, the other doesn't? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-11-05 23:24 +0100
                Re: One works, the other doesn't? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-11-05 23:06 +0000
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                Re: One works, the other doesn't? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2019-11-07 07:24 +1300
                Re: One works, the other doesn't? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-11-06 22:59 +0100
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