GNU bug report logs - #77301
Is this a bug?

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Package: grep;

Reported by: George R Goffe <grgoffe <at> yahoo.com>

Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 06:33:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Dale R. Worley" <Dale.Worley <at> comcast.net>
To: George R Goffe <grgoffe <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 77301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#77301: Is this a bug?
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:57:16 -0400

George R Goffe via Bug reports for GNU grep <bug-grep <at> gnu.org> writes:
> Apparently the gcc folks have been busy, tightening up the
> "rules". I'm not sure this isn't one so I'm reporting it.

> pcresearch.c:222:23: error: initializer-string for array of 'char' is too long [-Werror=unterminated-string-initialization]
>   222 |         wprefix[10] = "(?<!\\w)(?:", wsuffix[7] = ")(?!\\w)";
>       |                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~

That is strange:  I can't find any statement that recent C standards
have removed the special case "initialize a char array that doesn't have
room for the final NULL from a string literal".

Dale
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