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Re: [C PATCH] Simple compile-time array bounds checking

On Jan 12, 2007, at 9:36 PM, Roger Sayle wrote: 
I discovered that the known compile-time array bounds violation isn't
picked up by gcc,

Idiomatic old C includes things like:

struct {
	float a;
	char extra[1];
} *bla;

bla->extra[20]... Does your patch warn about them? Is that a bug or a feature? :-)

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