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Fat pointer syntax support for 1D array like structs

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shiv:
It would be nice to allow the following type of syntax:
struct S {
int len;
f32 data[];
};

struct S *s = malloc( sizeof( struct S ) + 100 * sizeof( f32 ) );
s->len = 100;
(*s)[0] = (*s)[1] + (*s)[2];

So if a struct ends with a variable length array (or just a pointer type) then the array access syntax using [] is honored.

lerno:
Ok, so a sort of syntactic sugar?


--- Code: ---// So these would be equal:
y = s->data[x];
y = (*s)[x];

--- End code ---

Correct?

shiv:
Yes!

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