Re: sys/queue.h

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:29:00 -0000 ellis@xxxxxxx wrote:

| In article <1184600375.603213.254750@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
| westymatt <westymatt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|
|>Out of curiousity what does it create? Unregulated array growth
|
| It creates a way to access data beyond what's defined in the struct.

Variable length structs, assuming the length information is in, or can be
derived from, what is in the fixed part of the struct, and the [0] member
is the last member.

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