From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Zero length array ?
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 08:48:18 -0800
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Dim Zegebart wrote:

> typedef struct
> { int hName;
>   char szName[0];
> } TFoo;
    ...
> My question is : then I allocate space for MyFoo where actualy
> MyFoo->szName points ?

What you are trying to do is create variable-language records, which is not
a good idea in C.

You cannot created zero-length arrays.  This makes no conceptual sense
whatsoever in C.

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