linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] io_uring: uapi: Don't use a zero-size array

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Date:   Wed, 16 Nov 2022 10:14:55 +0000
From:   Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@...il.com>
To:     Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@...weeb.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     Stefan Metzmacher <metze@...ba.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        io-uring Mailing List <io-uring@...r.kernel.org>,
        GNU/Weeb Mailing List <gwml@...r.gnuweeb.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] io_uring: uapi: Don't use a zero-size array

On 11/15/22 21:29, Ammar Faizi wrote:
> From: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@...weeb.org>
> 
> Don't use a zero-size array because it doesn't allow the user to
> compile an app that uses liburing with the `-pedantic-errors` flag:

Ammar, I'd strongly encourage you to at least compile your
patches or even better actually test them. There is an explicit
BUILD_BUG_ON() violated by this change.

-- 
Pavel Begunkov