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From: Richard Biener <rguenther@suse.de>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Qing Zhao <qing.zhao@oracle.com>,
	 "Joseph@codesourcery.com" <Joseph@codesourcery.com>,
	 jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
	gcc Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
	 Nathan Sidwell <Nathan@acm.org>, martin Sebor <msebor@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [[GCC13][Patch][V3] 1/2] Add a new option -fstrict-flex-array[=n] and new attribute strict_flex_array
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 06:11:34 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YFH.7.77.849.2209010611240.14286@jbgna.fhfr.qr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202208311517.68258F82DF@keescook>

On Wed, 31 Aug 2022, Kees Cook wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 08:35:12PM +0000, Qing Zhao wrote:
> > One of the major purposes of the new option -fstrict-flex-array is to encourage standard conforming programming style. 
> > 
> > So, it might be reasonable to treat -fstrict-flex-array similar as -pedantic (but only for flexible array members)? 
> > If so, then issuing warnings when the standard doesn?t support is reasonable and desirable. 
> 
> I guess the point is that "-std=c89 -fstrict-flex-arrays=3" leaves "[]"
> available for use still? I think this doesn't matter. If someone wants
> it to be really strict, they'd just add -Wpedantic.

Yes, I think that makes sense.

Richard.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-01  6:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-17 14:40 Qing Zhao
2022-08-17 14:40 ` [[GCC13][Patch][V3] 2/2] Use array_at_struct_end_p in __builtin_object_size [PR101836] Qing Zhao
2022-08-26  8:49   ` Richard Biener
2022-08-26 13:37     ` Qing Zhao
2022-08-26  8:48 ` [[GCC13][Patch][V3] 1/2] Add a new option -fstrict-flex-array[=n] and new attribute strict_flex_array Richard Biener
2022-08-26 13:47   ` Qing Zhao
2022-08-29  8:04     ` Richard Biener
2022-08-30 20:30 ` Fwd: " Qing Zhao
2022-08-30 20:30   ` Qing Zhao
2022-08-30 22:53   ` Joseph Myers
2022-08-31 14:00     ` Qing Zhao
2022-08-31 17:21       ` Joseph Myers
2022-08-31 17:21         ` Joseph Myers
2022-08-31 18:55         ` Qing Zhao
2022-08-31 19:24           ` Qing Zhao
2022-08-31 19:29           ` Joseph Myers
2022-08-31 19:29             ` Joseph Myers
2022-08-31 19:47             ` Qing Zhao
2022-08-31 19:52               ` Joseph Myers
2022-08-31 20:06                 ` Qing Zhao
2022-08-31 20:09                   ` Joseph Myers
2022-08-31 20:16                     ` Qing Zhao
2022-08-31 20:35                       ` Qing Zhao
2022-08-31 22:23                         ` Kees Cook
2022-09-01  6:11                           ` Richard Biener [this message]
2022-09-04 14:17                             ` Qing Zhao
2022-08-31 22:17                       ` Kees Cook

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