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Revision 06ccf63da5d8e90e4dff8b741972a9b279b5bf4c authored by Gustavo A. R. Silva on 24 March 2020, 00:38:18 UTC, committed by Gustavo A. R. Silva on 18 April 2020, 20:44:56 UTC
The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2], introduced in C99: struct foo { int stuff; struct boo array[]; }; By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on. Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by this change: "Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1] This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle. [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 [3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
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Tip revision: 06ccf63da5d8e90e4dff8b741972a9b279b5bf4c authored by Gustavo A. R. Silva on 24 March 2020, 00:38:18 UTC
tpm_eventlog.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
tpm_eventlog.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
Tip revision: 06ccf63
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Makefile | -rw-r--r-- | 361 bytes |
compat.c | -rw-r--r-- | 2.2 KB |
ipc_sysctl.c | -rw-r--r-- | 6.1 KB |
mq_sysctl.c | -rw-r--r-- | 2.7 KB |
mqueue.c | -rw-r--r-- | 42.5 KB |
msg.c | -rw-r--r-- | 31.6 KB |
msgutil.c | -rw-r--r-- | 3.6 KB |
namespace.c | -rw-r--r-- | 4.6 KB |
sem.c | -rw-r--r-- | 62.7 KB |
shm.c | -rw-r--r-- | 43.0 KB |
syscall.c | -rw-r--r-- | 5.1 KB |
util.c | -rw-r--r-- | 22.9 KB |
util.h | -rw-r--r-- | 8.7 KB |
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