Flexible Array Members

A struct whose last member is an array of unknown size, allocated together with the struct.

Intermediate

struct packet { uint16_t len; uint8_t data[]; };
struct packet *p = malloc(sizeof *p + n);

One allocation, contiguous memory — common in protocol code.

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