Zero Length Arrays Allowed in C Standard?

[Bjorn Engsig]

Article <11751 at smoke.BRL.MIL> by gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) says:
|I use the [1] kludge on occasion, but I raise flags when I do because
|it is not guaranteed to work.
Would you please explain why, and also tell what is the portable way of
having a 'variable length "thing"' in C.

Article <4733 at solo11.cs.vu.nl> by maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) proposed:
|	typedef struct SYMTAB {
|		struct SYMTAB *sym_next;
|		int     sym_type;
|		char    *sym_text;
|	} SYMTAB;
|
|symtabptr = (SYMTAB *) malloc(sizeof(SYMTAB) + strlen(text) + 1);
|symtabptr->sym_text = (char *) symtabptr + sizeof(SYMTAB);
|strcpy(symtabptr->sym_text, text);
Is that portable, or do you have to use two mallocs (one for the struct,
and one for the string)?
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