Re: [PATCH 01/16] eicon: fix -Warray-bounds warning

From: Danny Kukawka
Date: Tue Jan 31 2012 - 12:05:08 EST


On Dienstag, 31. Januar 2012, Karsten Keil wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:09:32PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 23:00 +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > > Fix for a -Warray-bounds warning. mixer_notify_update() tries to
> > > write to ((CAPI_MSG *) msg)->info.facility_req.structs[3] while
> > > structs is defined as byte structs[1], define structs[1] as
> > > structs[4].
> >
> > I suspect that all the 'byte structs[1];' fields defined in that header
> > are actually variable-length arrays. In that case, there may be no
> > reasonable bound you can specify.
>
> Yes, exactely, the structs is a ASN1 coded message so it can have any len.

So, how can we get rid of the compiler warning then?

Danny

> Karsten
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/