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SubjectRe: gcc fixed size char array initialization bug - known?
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Stefan Richter wrote:

> Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > with
> >
> > char c[4] = "012345";
> >
> > the compiler warns, but actually allocates a 6-byte long array...
>
> Off-topic here, but: sizeof c / sizeof *c == 4.

Don't think it is OT here - kernel depends on gcc. And, what I meant, is,
that gcc places all 7 (sorry, not 6 as I said above) characters in the
.rodata section of the compiled object file. Of course, it doesn't mean,
that c is 7 characters long.

Thanks
Guennadi
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