When evaluating initializers, it must be known if it is for a string or not. But sparse doesn't known about wide strings. Fix this by modifying is_string_type() to use is_wchar_type() in addition of is_byte_type(). Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx> --- evaluate.c | 5 ++++- validation/init-wstring.c | 1 - 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/evaluate.c b/evaluate.c index bbfa77c3a79d..8d09c560e7fe 100644 --- a/evaluate.c +++ b/evaluate.c @@ -406,7 +406,10 @@ static inline int is_string_type(struct symbol *type) { if (type->type == SYM_NODE) type = type->ctype.base_type; - return type->type == SYM_ARRAY && is_byte_type(type->ctype.base_type); + if (type->type != SYM_ARRAY) + return 0; + type = type->ctype.base_type; + return is_byte_type(type) || is_wchar_type(type); } static struct symbol *bad_expr_type(struct expression *expr) diff --git a/validation/init-wstring.c b/validation/init-wstring.c index 846b6e2c3efd..d9ce3b3c883b 100644 --- a/validation/init-wstring.c +++ b/validation/init-wstring.c @@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ static const __WCHAR_TYPE__ ko2[2] = L"abc"; /* * check-name: init-wstring * check-command: sparse -Winit-cstring $file - * check-known-to-fail * * check-error-start init-wstring.c:29:38: warning: too long initializer-string for array of char(no space for nul char) -- 2.28.0