Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86, selftests, mpx: fix up weird arrays

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Nov 21 2017 - 03:32:10 EST



* Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> The MPX hardware data structurse are defined in a weird way: they define
> their size in bytes and then union that with the type with which we want
> to access them.
>
> Yes, this is weird, but it does work. But, new GCC's complain that we
> are accessing the array out of bounds. Just make it a zero-sized array
> so gcc will stop complaining. There was not really a bug here.

Note, I've added your missing Signed-off-by line.

Thanks,

Ingo