Resizing a char[x] to char[y] at runtime

Question

OK, I hope I explain this one correctly. I have a struct:

typedef struct _MyData
{
   char Data[256];
   int  Index;
} MyData;

Now, I run into

Answer 1

You cant reacolate manualy.

You can do some tricks wich i was uning when i was working aon simple data holding sistem. (very simple filesystem).

typedef struct
{
    int index ;     
    char x[250];
} data_ztorage_250_char;

typedef struct
{
    int index;      
    char x[1000];
} data_ztorage_1000_char;

int main(void)
{
      char just_raw_data[sizeof(data_ztorage_1000_char)];
      data_ztorage_1000_char* big_struct;
      data_ztorage_250_char* small_struct;
      big_struct = (data_ztorage_1000_char*)big_struct; //now you have bigg struct
      // notice that upper line is same as writing 
      // big_struct = (data_ztorage_1000_char*)(&just_raw_data[0]);

      small_struct = (data_ztorage_250_char*)just_raw_data;//now you have small struct

      //both structs starts at same locations and they share same memory
     //addresing data is 
      small_struct -> index = 250;
}