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From: dwho@nmtsun.nmt.edu (David Olix)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Indefinite-length array as member of struct:  how?
Message-ID: <2831@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: 7 Jul 89 19:45:11 GMT
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Reply-To: dwho@nmtsun.nmt.edu (David Olix)
Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro NM
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>regarding variable-length strings...
>
>struct node {
>	struct node* next;
>	char	string[];
>} *nodeptr;
>
>If you want to shut your compiler up, try making that "[1]".

I guess I am unclear on something here.  If you define string as
'char string[1];', that only gives you one char's worth of space in string.
If that's the case why don't you define string as 'char string;'?