Re: gcc fixed size char array initialization bug - known?

[Guennadi Liakhovetski]

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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