"Dale R. Worley" via Bug reports for GNU grep <bug-grep@gnu.org> wrote:
> George R Goffe via Bug reports for GNU grep <bug-grep@gnu.org> writes: > > Apparently the gcc folks have been busy, tightening up the > > "rules". I'm not sure this isn't one so I'm reporting it. > > > pcresearch.c:222:23: error: initializer-string for array of 'char' is too > > long [-Werror=unterminated-string-initialization] > > 222 | wprefix[10] = "(?<!\\w)(?:", wsuffix[7] = ")(?!\\w)"; > > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > That is strange: I can't find any statement that recent C standards > have removed the special case "initialize a char array that doesn't have > room for the final NULL from a string literal". > > Dale The bug is that the constants given for the sizes are each to small by one. Count the characters in each string, add 1 for the final '\0', and you'll see. Arnold
