Re: m68k allmodconfig build errors
From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Wed Sep 26 2018 - 03:44:29 EST
Hi Andreas,
On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 7:35 PM Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Jul 23 2018, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I don't see that all of these string compare fields are null-terminated.
>
> That gcc has converted the strncmp calls to strcmp is a pretty strong
> evidence that they are.
Isn't gcc-8 just assuming that any char array must contain a valid
NUL-terminated string, unless it is tagged with the nonstring attribute?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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