[cfe-dev] cfe-dev Digest, Vol 49, Issue 106

[Peter Geoghegan]

On 4 August 2011 22:39, Peter Lawrence <peterl95124 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>                    hopefully I can add something without "throwing gas on
> the fire".!.
> if you believe that most array bounds violations are dynamic (can't be
> caught
> at compile time, would require run-time bounds checking code), then it would
> seem that being pedantic about static - size - '1' arrays that are the last
> field
> of  a struct (a "standard" coding practice for a long long time) is
> mis-placed
> effort, and detecting them with a static analyzer is giving people a false
> sense
> of security where none is warranted.
> -Peter Lawrence.

Thank you Peter, but the issue has been resolved as of r136724. I am
very happy with the outcome.

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