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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Wed, 26 Sep 2018 09:44:13 +0200
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Subject: Re: m68k allmodconfig build errors
To:     Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
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Hi Andreas,

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 7:35 PM Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Jul 23 2018, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
> > I don't see that all of these string compare fields are null-terminated.
>
> That gcc has converted the strncmp calls to strcmp is a pretty strong
> evidence that they are.

Isn't gcc-8 just assuming that any char array must contain a valid
NUL-terminated string, unless it is tagged with the nonstring attribute?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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