Re: warn/croak on "string" "string" auto-joins

[Chris Jefferson <caj at cs dot york dot ac dot uk>]

Dave Korn wrote:

>
>>>>This would have helped early and is good practice:
>>>>
>>>>char *months[12] = {"Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May",
>>
>>"Jun", "Jul",
>>
>>>>"Aug" "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"};
>>>>
>>>>--> high probability warning
>>>
>>>I'm not sure I understand, what does "high probability
>>
>>warning" mean?
>>
>>>I get no errors/warnings from the following:
>>>
>>>#include <stdio.h>
>>>int main( void )
>>>{
>>>  char *months[15] = {"Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May",
>>
>>"Jun", "Jul",
>>
>>>"Aug" "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"};
>>>  printf("7: %s\n", months[8]);
>>>  return 0;
>>>}
>>>
>>>compiled with 'gcc -Wall -pedantic -ansi', using GCC 3.3.3.
>>
>>Hmm, I could have sworn that a mismatch in array dimensions
>>does emit a warning (too many initializers do error out "como").
>>Looks like this is not the case. Sorry for bothering you :-(
>
>
>  But it has too *few* initialisers!
>
While not exactly what was asked for in the first place, it would seem 
to me this kind of problem (giving too few initalisers to a fixed length 
array) should definatly emit a warning.. would this be hard to do / can 
anyone come up with a sensible reason to give too few initalisers?

Chris