On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, 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.
Exactly. Think of all structs with fixed-length char arrays (various device name fields, etc.) static instances of which re scattered across all possible drivers... Usually those strings should be long "enough", but if someone manages to exactly hit the length, there won't be a warning. Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
