On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Josh Juran <j...@iswifter.net> wrote: > My understanding is that accessing element n or greater in an array[n] > is undefined behavior, but declaring a huge array and allocating only > part of it is valid.
It's a commonly used pattern in C. You declare a size-one array at the end of a structure, then you allocate enough memory to hold the structure plus (n-1) extra elements of the array. In wine size is usually calculated with the macro FIELD_OFFSET(struct, member[size]). Octavian
