From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.0.7
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:30:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43C032F4.9030104@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vlkxreo9e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
>
>
>>Any reason to not just do:
>>
>> struct frotz {
>> int xyzzy;
>> char nitfol[1]; /* more */
>> };
>>
>>... which should work on all compilers?
>
> Laziness, especially to avoid having to deal with comments like
> "your xmalloc(sizeof(struct frotz) + strlen(nitfol) + 1) should be
> xmalloc(sizeof(struct frotz) + strlen(nitfol)), because you
> have already one byte for nitfol element."
>
In the case of strings, that's probably a blessing (already accounted
for the null byte).
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-07 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-07 7:01 [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.0.7 Junio C Hamano
2006-01-07 8:16 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2006-01-07 8:29 ` David S. Miller
2006-01-07 8:33 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2006-01-07 8:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-07 9:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-07 12:12 ` Sergey Vlasov
2006-01-07 18:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-07 20:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-07 21:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-07 21:30 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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