Flexible array members in C - bad?
- by Lionel
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[];
};
