Florian Forster <octo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> GCC ignores the FAM in this case and allocates `sizeof (struct
> combine_diff_path)' bytes. However, this is not correct according to
> ANSI and prevents building using other compilers (e.g. Sun cc).
Fair enough.
> To be honest, I don't get the point of FAMs anyways. Why don't we just
> use a pointer to `struct combine_diff_parent' there in the first place?
In general FAMs are used to replace two mallocs with one.
x = malloc(sizeof(struct foo) + 100)
instead of
x = malloc(sizeof(struct foo));
x->y = malloc(100);
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