Problem with string initializer

[Horst von Brand]

Manfred Hollstein <manfredh@redhat.com> said:
> On Wed, 28 June 2000, 15:28:27 -0400, vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl wrote:
> > Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> said:
> > > The following input to the C++ compiler will result in an error:

> > > $ cat string.cc
> > > char x[] = {"asdf"};
> > > $ g++ -v string.cc
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > string.cc:1: initializer-string for array of chars is too long
> > > 
> > > The error does not occur if the braces are omitted.

> > Hummm... it should probably complain that you are trying to initialize a
> > char (x[0]) with a const char * ("asdf"). If there are no braces, there is
> > no error.

> You're absolutely right, that was my immediate response; BUT, then
> at least gcc-2.95.2 is wrong, which compiles this without notice...

gcc-2.95.2 is wrong then.

gcc-2.95.3-0.20000517 (from rawhide) doesn't complain either, not even with
-Wall (as gcc or as g++). It does complain (as it should) for:

   char ss[] = "12345";
   char x[] = {ss};

OTOH, gcc from CVS 20000627 doesn't complain, but g++ does:

/tmp/tst.c:1: initializer-string for array of chars is too long

The message is clearly wrong. Mixed up error messages, perhaps?
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