On 06/23/2011 05:08 PM, Maarten Lankhorst wrote: > gcc with -Warray-bounds generates a false positive on this > since xfs defines the struct with u8 name[1]; to be able to > add a tag at the end. > > Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_block.c | 2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_block.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_block.c > index 580d99c..09b4aed 100644 > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_block.c > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_block.c > @@ -1148,7 +1148,7 @@ xfs_dir2_sf_to_block( > ((char *)block + XFS_DIR2_DATA_DOTDOT_OFFSET); > dep->inumber = cpu_to_be64(xfs_dir2_sf_get_inumber(sfp, &sfp->hdr.parent)); > dep->namelen = 2; > - dep->name[0] = dep->name[1] = '.'; > + dep->name[0] = ((__u8 *)dep->name)[1] = '.'; > tagp = xfs_dir2_data_entry_tag_p(dep); > *tagp = cpu_to_be16((char *)dep - (char *)block); > xfs_dir2_data_log_entry(tp, bp, dep); Oops, that still gives a warning, I used (u8*) first which works, but it seems the type conversion was what made it shut up. Is there any type I can cast __u8 to safely, or is memset preferred? gcc was too smart and saw through my __u8 cast. ~Maarten _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs