The correct way to write this is to not use /1/ in the size of namestr, it's to use a simple []. This tells subsequent programmers that you are using variable l

The correct way to write this is to not use /1/ in the size of namestr, it's to use a simple []. This tells subsequent programmers that you are using variable length structures. In older compilers, the metaphor was to use '0', but C99 (maybe even earlier) got everyone using []. Here's a nice discussion in StackOverflow, including a bunch of C++ guys saying to just use Vectors, which ignores the entire point of getting a structure with only one memory allocation: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/688471/variable-sized-struct-c http://stackoverflow.com/questions/688471/variable-sized-str...