[Dovecot] [PATCH 0/10] NTLM patchset submission

[Timo Sirainen]

On 28.7.2004, at 01:51, Geo Carncross wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 17:36, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> You use "char var[0]" in end of some structures. I've tried to avoid
>> them so far everywhere since C89 doesn't support it. But I guess it's
>> common enough feature that it could be allowed the way C99 supports 
>> it,
>> var[].
>
> var[1] is safe and then malloc-1. Still C89-ok.

BTW. This works only as long as you don't care if sizeof() returns more 
data than the structure actually uses. struct foo { int size; char 
data[1]; }; sizeof(foo) == 8 with most compilers nowadays because of 
alignmentation issues.
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