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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>,
	xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] xfs: Silence bounds checking compiler warning
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:27:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2boxocvb5.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E037001.8090306__42924.0493024283$1308849791$gmane$org@gmail.com> (Maarten Lankhorst's message of "Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:55:29 +0200")

Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com> writes:

> gcc with -Warray-bounds generates a false positive on this
> since xfs defines the struct with u8 name[1]; to be able to
> add a tag at the end.

A better way would be to define it as name[0]. Then the compiler
would know it's a VLA. You may need to check noone relies on
the one byte though.

-Andi
-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only

       reply	other threads:[~2011-06-23 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4E037001.8090306__42924.0493024283$1308849791$gmane$org@gmail.com>
2011-06-23 17:27 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2011-06-23 17:55   ` [PATCH v2] xfs: Silence bounds checking compiler warning Al Viro
2011-06-23 18:13     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-06-24  2:15     ` Dave Chinner
2011-06-23 16:55 Maarten Lankhorst

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