On Sep 4, 7:14 pm, "Ron Peterson (012ED25E)" <peterson....@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I ran into a typedef for a structure recently that looks like this:
>
> typedef struct {
> int len;
> char *buf;
>
> } foo[1];
>
> This is basically an abbreviation of something I found in the GNU MP
> library. I was looking for this, because I wanted to understand how
> their mpz_t type worked.
>
> Anyway, I'm not familiar with the idea of using a one element array as
> the name of a typedef. Is there a name for this type of construct?
> Is it standard portable C?

Yes, it's standard C. In the same way, you can define a typedef

typedef char short_buf [5];

for a small 5 element char array.

Michael
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