[Bug middle-end/39218] a surprising instance of -fstack-protector not protecting

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https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39218

Eric Gallager <egall at gwmail dot gwu.edu> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Eric Gallager <egall at gwmail dot gwu.edu> ---
(In reply to Andrew Pinski from comment #1)
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> Maybe it should say character buffers rather than just buffers here.

Yeah, that would help clarify stuff a lot... the term "buffer" is kind of
ambiguous as it currently stands, which makes it hard to know how exactly how
to deal with warnings from "-Wstack-protector"... I had been trying messing
with other sorts of buffers besides character buffers before reading this...