On Tue, 6 Sep 2016, Paul Eggert wrote: > One way to correct the code is to increase malloc's argument up to a multiple > of alignof(max_align_t). (One cannot portably use alignof(struct s) due to
Sounds like a defect in C11 to me - none of the examples of flexible array members anticipate needing to add to the size to allow for tail padding with unknown alignment requirements. > C11's prohibition of using alignof on incomplete types.) This is why Structures with flexible array members are not incomplete types. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
