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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0708030056390.6774@poirot.grange>
Date:	Fri, 3 Aug 2007 01:26:40 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
cc:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gcc fixed size char array initialization bug - known?

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> C99 spec that Al referred you to (available for around US$18 as a pdf)
> says in 6.7.8, para. 14 (where Al said):
> 
> "An array of character type may be initialized by a character string literal, optionally
> enclosed in braces. Successive characters of the character string literal (including the
> terminating null character if there is room or if the array is of unknown size) initialize the
> elements of the array."

Wow... So, the terminating '\0' in the string constant IS "special" and 
"optional"... Ok, then, THIS does answer my question, THIS I can 
understand, and, ghm, accept...

Thanks to all who tried to explain this to me and sorry it took so long...

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski
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