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

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On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 10:26:37PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> 
> Worse yet, K&R explicitely writes:
> 
> <quote>
> 
> 	char pattern[] = "ould";
> 
> is a shorthand for the longer but equivalent
> 
> 	char pattern[] = { 'o', 'u', 'l', 'd', '\0' };
> 
> </quote>
> 
> In the latter spelling gcc < 4.2 DOES warn too.

Does warn for what?  Array with known size?  Sure, so it should - you
have excess initializer list elements.

Note the [] in the quoted - it does matter.

Again, it's perfectly legitimate to use string literal to initialize
any kind of array of character type.  \0 goes there only if there's
space for it; if array size is unknown, the space is left.  That's it.
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