From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:30:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.0.7
Message-ID: <43C032F4.9030104@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vlkxreo9e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>Any reason to not just do:
>>
>> 	struct frotz {
>> 		int xyzzy;
>> 		char nitfol[1]; /* more */
>> 	};
>>
>>... which should work on all compilers?
> 
> Laziness, especially to avoid having to deal with comments like
> "your xmalloc(sizeof(struct frotz) + strlen(nitfol) + 1) should be
> xmalloc(sizeof(struct frotz) + strlen(nitfol)), because you
> have already one byte for nitfol element."
> 

In the case of strings, that's probably a blessing (already accounted 
for the null byte).

	-hpa