Bug#392880: gcc-4.1: off-by-one error for string initialiser warnings

[Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org>]

Jochen Voss <voss@debian.org> writes:

> one very useful feature of gcc is, that it warns you when you
> produce unterminated strings by using too long initialisers.
> Unfortunately the warning only kicks in, if the initialiser is at
> least two bytes longer than the string buffer.

This is deliberate. In many situations, you do want to cut off the
zero bytes (e. g. char magic[4] = "DIVX"). After all, if you do not
want to restrict the length, why are you giving a number at all?

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	Falk