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Re: [PATCH] Fix the damage done by my other patch from yesterday to strlenopt-49.c


On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 03:52:39PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2018, Bernd Edlinger wrote:
> 
> > In the moment I would already be happy if all STRING_CSTs would
> > be zero terminated.
> 
> generic.texi says they need not be.  Making the STRING_CST contain only 
> the bytes of the initializer and not the trailing NUL in the C case where 
> the trailing NUL does not fit in the object initialized would of course 
> mean you get non-NUL-terminated STRING_CSTs for valid C code as well.

One thing is whether TREE_STRING_LENGTH includes the trailing NUL byte,
that doesn't need to be the case e.g. for the shortened initializers.
The other thing is whether we as a convenience for the compiler's internals
want to waste some memory for the NUL termination; I think we could avoid
some bugs that way.

	Jakub


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