This is an excellent question. Zero-length arrays, also known as flexible arrays, are used to implement variable-length arrays, primarily in structures. That's a little confusing, so let's look at an ...

Lately, there has been a push for people to stop using programming languages that don’t promote memory safety. But as we still haven’t seen the death of some languages that were born in the early ...

Kees Cook has posted a detailed document describing the work to improve safety of flexible-length arrays in the kernel. Converting such codebases to use “modern” language features, like those in C99 ...