Commit 0627eff3 authored by Tom Lane's avatar Tom Lane

Don't need to explain [1] kluge anymore in xfunc.sgml.

parent 2e211211
......@@ -1885,17 +1885,12 @@ typedef struct
<programlisting>
typedef struct {
int32 length;
char data[1];
char data[FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER];
} text;
</programlisting>
Obviously, the data field declared here is not long enough to hold
all possible strings. Since it's impossible to declare a variable-size
structure in <acronym>C</acronym>, we rely on the knowledge that the
<acronym>C</acronym> compiler won't range-check array subscripts. We
just allocate the necessary amount of space and then access the array as
if it were declared the right length. (This is a common trick, which
you can read about in many textbooks about C.)
The <literal>[FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER]</> notation means that the actual
length of the data part is not specified by this declaration.
</para>
<para>
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