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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