linux-kernel - (off-topic) Re: gcc fixed size char array initialization bug

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Message-ID: <46B25DD9.9040701@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:42:33 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>
CC:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: (off-topic) Re: gcc fixed size char array initialization bug - known?

Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> Robert, Stefan, I am sorry, I think, you are VERY wrong here.

You meant to say "C99 is very wrong".

> And, Stefan, there is a perfect way to specify a "0123" without the '\0' - 
> {'0', '1', '2', '3'}.

C99 says char c[4] = "0123"; is a perfect way to say char c[4] = {'0',
'1', '2', '3'};.  Do you want gcc to choose otherwise and ban the former
of the two idioms?
-- 
Stefan Richter
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