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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Auto variable with sizeof == 0
Message-ID: <5621@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 13-Feb-87 15:41:08 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 13 15:41:08 1987
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <795@cullvax.UUCP> drw@cullvax.UUCP (Dale Worley) writes:
-braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner) writes:
-> typedef struct LINE {
->...
-> 	char        text[];		/* !!!!!!!!! */
-> }	LINE;
-Replace "char text[]" with "char text[0]".

Since X3J11 hasn't agreed to permit 0-sized objects anywhere,
you might be better off using "char text[1]".  Turn off any
range-checking your C system might have.