From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:12:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.0.7
Message-ID: <7vlkxreo9e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <43C028CA.8090702@zytor.com>

"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."