Zero Length Arrays Allowed in C Standard?

[Richard H. Gumpertz]

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In article <UZTerlu00VcJEDulRd at andrew.cmu.edu> jm36+ at andrew.cmu.edu (John Gardiner Myers) writes:
>Note that it is provable that the char pointer (foo->baz + 1) points
>within the object returned by malloc.

Unfortunately, it is not provable that the char pointer(foo->baz + 1)
points within the sub-object baz.  Hence, the behavior is undefined
(X3J11/88-158, 3.3.6, page 48, lines 24-27). 

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