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by konstantinua00
320 days ago
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...what are you talking about? array-like storage with dynamic size has existed since forever - it's vector. over or undercommitting is a solved problem VLA is the way to bring that into type system, so that it can be it's own variable or struct member, with compiler auto-magic-ing size reading to access members after it |
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From the article
>we now have everything we need to calculate the size, offset and alignment of every field, regardless of their positioning in the struct. >init to allocate the memory >get to get a pointer to a field >resize to resize the arrays >deinit to free the memory
You're now suggesting to do exactly what the article is about without being aware of it.