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SubjectRe: gcc fixed size char array initialization bug - known?
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Al Viro wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 09:55:51PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > But do a
> >
> > char c[4] = "0123";
> >
> > and - a wonder - no warning.
>
> And this is a correct behaviour. You get a valid initialier for array;
> see 6.7.8[14] for details. Moreover, that kind of code is often

What is 6.7.8[14]? If you're referring to the ANSI standard, then,
unfortunately, I don't have it.

> quite deliberate.

Worse yet, K&R explicitely writes:

<quote>

char pattern[] = "ould";

is a shorthand for the longer but equivalent

char pattern[] = { 'o', 'u', 'l', 'd', '\0' };

</quote>

In the latter spelling gcc < 4.2 DOES warn too.

Thanks
Guennadi
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