Flexible array members in C - bad?
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Published on 2008-10-29T14:21:17Z
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I recently read that using flexible array members in C was poor software engineering practice. However, that statement was not backed by any argument. Is this an accepted fact?
(Flexible array members are a C feature introduced in C99 whereby one can declare the last element to be an array of unspecified size. For example: )
struct header {
size_t len;
unsigned char data[];
};
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