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SubjectRe: gcc fixed size char array initialization bug - known?
On 02/08/07, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 10:03:03PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > I believe Guennadi's point is that gcc does not warn about it in the
> > case of c[4] = "0123"; but only in the case of c[4] = "01234" - so if
> > we do have such initializations in the kernel we may have some bugs
> > hiding there that gcc doesn't warn us about.
>
> Who said it's a bug? Or that all arrays of char have to contain '\0'
> anywhere in them?
>
I was simply trying to explain what I thought Guennadi meant. I was
not commenting on whether or not there's a bug there.

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