char[] ported from C to char[0] in the D core library

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On Wednesday, 9 September 2015 at 19:37:54 UTC, Alex Parrill 
wrote:
> It's a flexible array member [1], not a pointer. Changing it to 
> `char*` would make it incompatible with the C functions using 
> it.
>
> [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member

TIL a new detail about C on the D forum ;)