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From: russotto@wam.UMD.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: THINK C 4.0 Goodies
Message-ID: <8909120002.AA00524@vs04csc.UMD.EDU>
Date: 12 Sep 89 00:02:08 GMT
References: <199@dbase.UUCP>
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <199@dbase.UUCP> awd@dbase.UUCP (Alastair Dallas) writes:
>- structures can be open-ended without causing a compiler error, as in:
>  struct {
>	Rect bBox;
>	int sizObj;
>	char data[];
>	} object;
>  This is one of the few things that Pascal examples make this C programmer
>  envious of (the other being with..do).
>
>Any comments?
>
>/alastair/
What's the matter with
	struct {
		...
		char data[0];
	} object;
?
It's certainly better than Pascal's 
	Packed Array[0..0] of char;


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