Hi, This is the patch for mentioning -fstrict-flex-arrays and -Warray-bounds=2 changes in gcc-13/changes.html.
Let me know if you have any comment or suggestions. Thanks. Qing. ======================================= >From c022076169b4f1990b91f7daf4cc52c6c5535228 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Qing Zhao <qing.z...@oracle.com> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 16:13:04 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] gcc-13/changes: Mention -fstrict-flex-arrays and its impact. --- htdocs/gcc-13/changes.html | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/htdocs/gcc-13/changes.html b/htdocs/gcc-13/changes.html index 689178f9..47b3d40f 100644 --- a/htdocs/gcc-13/changes.html +++ b/htdocs/gcc-13/changes.html @@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ a work-in-progress.</p> <li>Legacy debug info compression option <code>-gz=zlib-gnu</code> was removed and the option is ignored right now.</li> <li>New debug info compression option value <code>-gz=zstd</code> has been added.</li> + <li><code>-Warray-bounds=2</code> will no longer issue warnings for out of bounds + accesses to trailing struct members of one-element array type anymore. Please + add <code>-fstrict-flex-arrays=level</code> to control how the compiler treat + trailing arrays of structures as flexible array members. </li> </ul> @@ -409,6 +413,17 @@ a work-in-progress.</p> <h2>Other significant improvements</h2> <!-- <h3 id="uninitialized">Eliminating uninitialized variables</h3> --> +<h3 id="flexible array">Treating trailing arrays as flexible array members</h3> + +<ul> + <li>GCC can now control when to treat the trailing array of a structure as a + flexible array member for the purpose of accessing the elements of such + an array. By default, all trailing arrays of structures are treated as + flexible array members. Use the new command-line option + <code>-fstrict-flex-array=level</code> to control how GCC treats the trailing + array of a structure as a flexible array member at different levels. + </li> +</ul> <!-- .................................................................. --> <!-- <h2 id="13.1">GCC 13.1</h2> --> -- 2.31.1