Re: C Strings and String Literals. (Was: Pascal rides again)

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hi Doug!

On 11/13/22 23:39, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
>   > Wouldn't it be nice to use -Wunterminated-strings and let the
> > compiler yell at me if I write a string literal [that's too long]?
>
> A good idea.

Thanks!

> Assuming you use gcc, please propose it at
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla.

Yep I use gcc.  I'm too lazy to open bugzilla.  I reported it to the mailing 
list, and it seems it's an easy thing to do (at least compared to what it could 
have been).  I'll give it a try to implement it.  I CCd you in the thread, in 
case you are interested in it.  For anyone else, it's:

<https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2022-November/239980.html>

> Apropos of help from the compiler, I normally run gcc via this script
> and stamp out all warnings.
>          #!/bin/bash
>          exec /bin/gcc -Wall -Wpedantic -Wextra "$@"

Hmm, might be interesting to create a ccw alias, and a cce one.  I always feel 
that writing those two/three arguments is a bit tiring.

> Doug

Cheers,

Alex