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

[Geo Carncross]

On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 00:03, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 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.

No, for one can always:

typedef char _structure_ext[1];

sizeof(struct foo)-sizeof(_structure_ext)


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