Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.0.7

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jan 7, 2006, 21:12 UTC
Message-ID: <7vlkxreo9e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <43C028CA.8090702@zytor.com>

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

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> 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."