linux-kernel - Re: m68k allmodconfig build errors

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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdW-ZA3bUJP3Fztm5sm7TSO345Jah471oMUr89x89d51xQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 26 Sep 2018 09:44:13 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-m68k <linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: m68k allmodconfig build errors

Hi Andreas,

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 7:35 PM Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Jul 23 2018, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> wrote:
> > I don't see that all of these string compare fields are null-terminated.
>
> That gcc has converted the strncmp calls to strcmp is a pretty strong
> evidence that they are.

Isn't gcc-8 just assuming that any char array must contain a valid
NUL-terminated string, unless it is tagged with the nonstring attribute?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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