linux-kernel - Re: gcc fixed size char array initialization bug

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Date:	Thu, 2 Aug 2007 22:26:37 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>
To:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gcc fixed size char array initialization bug - known?

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Al Viro wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 09:55:51PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > But do a
> > 
> > 	char c[4] = "0123";
> > 
> > and - a wonder - no warning.
> 
> And this is a correct behaviour.  You get a valid initialier for array;
> see 6.7.8[14] for details.  Moreover, that kind of code is often

What is 6.7.8[14]? If you're referring to the ANSI standard, then, 
unfortunately, I don't have it.

> quite deliberate.

Worse yet, K&R explicitely writes:

<quote>

	char pattern[] = "ould";

is a shorthand for the longer but equivalent

	char pattern[] = { 'o', 'u', 'l', 'd', '\0' };

</quote>

In the latter spelling gcc < 4.2 DOES warn too.

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski
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