Comment by jkrejcha

With an variable length array of structs, you can set all the fields all to 0 at the cost of an extra member at the end. In the cases where this is, the structures are such that (either intentionally or by consequence) something with all fields zero is outside of the function's domain

A little bit related: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20091008-00/?p=16...