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From: jsdy@SEISMO.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re:  array refs
Message-ID: <7804@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 06:24:08 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 29 06:24:08 1985
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> 	struct weird {
> 		int	count;
> 		...
> 		...
> 		char	string[1];
> 	};
> 
> 	w = malloc(sizeof(struct weird) + strlen(source);
> 	w->count = strlen(strcpy(w->string,source));

While I know that this is sometimes necessary when dealing with external
communications devices (e.g.), I've never really been happy about being
forced to use this device.  It seems, somehow, to be betraying the old
and good principle of "saying what you  m e a n ".

Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{ARPA,UUCP}