Support for dynamically sized types that aren't fat pointers

language design
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the main usecaes for this would be c "flexible arrays" and stuff like pascal strings.

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currently the only way to do this is to put a zero-sized type at the end of a struct

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Search for extern types / DynSized / Unsized / pointee metadata / custom DSTs more generally.

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ThinBox is also relevant

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