Re: [PATCH] Support the nonstring variable attribute (gcc >= 8)

2018-03-13 Thread Miguel Ojeda
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 4:41 PM, Martin Sebor wrote: > Martin Sebor also asked me about this, he's the one that worked on > the gcc code that introduced the warning. Sorry for not replying > earlier. > Maybe you can pass this to him? (maybe open a bug in gcc's bugzilla?)

Re: [PATCH] Support the nonstring variable attribute (gcc >= 8)

2018-03-13 Thread Martin Sebor
Martin Sebor also asked me about this, he's the one that worked on the gcc code that introduced the warning. Sorry for not replying earlier. Maybe you can pass this to him? (maybe open a bug in gcc's bugzilla?) I've opened bug 84725 to extend attribute nonstring to the other two character ty

Re: [PATCH] Support the nonstring variable attribute (gcc >= 8)

2018-03-07 Thread Miguel Ojeda
On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 8:05 PM, Martin Sebor wrote: > On 03/02/2018 10:36 AM, Miguel Ojeda wrote: >> >> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 10:57 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 1:01 AM, Miguel Ojeda >>> wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 12:20 AM, David Rientjes wrote: >

Re: [PATCH] Support the nonstring variable attribute (gcc >= 8)

2018-03-05 Thread Martin Sebor
On 03/02/2018 10:36 AM, Miguel Ojeda wrote: On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 10:57 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 1:01 AM, Miguel Ojeda wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 12:20 AM, David Rientjes wrote: On Sat, 17 Feb 2018, Miguel Ojeda wrote: From the GCC manual: The nonstring varia

Re: [PATCH] Support the nonstring variable attribute (gcc >= 8)

2018-03-02 Thread Miguel Ojeda
On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 10:57 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 1:01 AM, Miguel Ojeda > wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 12:20 AM, David Rientjes wrote: >>> On Sat, 17 Feb 2018, Miguel Ojeda wrote: >>> From the GCC manual: The nonstring variable attribute specifie

Re: [PATCH] Support the nonstring variable attribute (gcc >= 8)

2018-03-01 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 1:01 AM, Miguel Ojeda wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 12:20 AM, David Rientjes wrote: >> On Sat, 17 Feb 2018, Miguel Ojeda wrote: >> >>> From the GCC manual: >>> >>> The nonstring variable attribute specifies that an object or member >>> declaration with type array of cha

Re: [PATCH] Support the nonstring variable attribute (gcc >= 8)

2018-02-18 Thread Miguel Ojeda
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 12:20 AM, David Rientjes wrote: > On Sat, 17 Feb 2018, Miguel Ojeda wrote: > >> From the GCC manual: >> >> The nonstring variable attribute specifies that an object or member >> declaration with type array of char or pointer to char is intended to >> store character arrays

Re: [PATCH] Support the nonstring variable attribute (gcc >= 8)

2018-02-18 Thread David Rientjes
On Sat, 17 Feb 2018, Miguel Ojeda wrote: > From the GCC manual: > > The nonstring variable attribute specifies that an object or member > declaration with type array of char or pointer to char is intended to > store character arrays that do not necessarily contain a terminating NUL > character. T

[PATCH] Support the nonstring variable attribute (gcc >= 8)

2018-02-17 Thread Miguel Ojeda
>From the GCC manual: The nonstring variable attribute specifies that an object or member declaration with type array of char or pointer to char is intended to store character arrays that do not necessarily contain a terminating NUL character. This is useful in detecting uses of such arrays or poi