Zero Length Arrays Allowed in C Standard?

[Maarten Litmaath]

In article <1989Dec5.112553.24087 at twwells.com>
bill at twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:
\...
\Consider a symbol table that is used to store strings. You could
\declare a member of it as:
\
\	typedef struct SYMTAB {
\		struct SYMTAB *sym_next;
\		int     sym_type;
\		char    *sym_text;
\	} SYMTAB;
\
\This has the drawback that one needs two allocates for the
\structure [...]

symtabptr = (SYMTAB *) malloc(sizeof(SYMTAB) + strlen(text) + 1);
symtabptr->sym_text = (char *) symtabptr + sizeof(SYMTAB);
strcpy(symtabptr->sym_text, text);
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