Zero Length Arrays Allowed in C Standard?

[Bret Orsburn]

In article <7349 at quick.COM> srg at quick.COM (Spencer Garrett) writes:
>How would you deal with the following?
>
>	struct blat {
>		struct blat    *next;
>		int		value;
>		char		name[0];
>	} *new;
>If you
>declare it "char name[1]" then there's no portable way to get the
>size of the header (since you can't predict how much padding may
>need to be added).

Sorry if I am missing some subtlety here, (if so, I have probably edited
out the meat of it) but it seems pretty clear to me that the padding bytes
should exist in the zero-length case as well. Otherwise, the array "name"
is not legally aligned.

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