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I had left the warning around but as a non-fatal error to get my gcc-15 builds going, but fixed up some of the most annoying warning cases so that it wouldn't be *too* verbose. Because I like the _concept_ of the warning, even if I detested the implementation to shut it up. It turns out the implementation to shut it up is even more broken than I thought, and my "shut up most of the warnings" patch just caused fatal errors on gcc-14 instead. I had tested with clang, but when I upgrade my development environment, I try to do it on all machines because I hate having different systems to maintain, and hadn't realized that gcc-14 now had issues. The ACPI case is literally why I wanted to have a *type* that doesn't trigger the warning (see commitd5d45a7f26: "gcc-15: make 'unterminated string initialization' just a warning"), instead of marking individual places as "__nonstring". But gcc-14 doesn't like that __nonstring location that shut gcc-15 up, because it's on an array of char arrays, not on one single array: drivers/acpi/tables.c:399:1: error: 'nonstring' attribute ignored on objects of type 'const char[][4]' [-Werror=attributes] 399 | static const char table_sigs[][ACPI_NAMESEG_SIZE] __initconst __nonstring = { | ^~~~~~ and my attempts to nest it properly with a type had failed, because of how gcc doesn't like marking the types as having attributes, only symbols. There may be some trick to it, but I was already annoyed by the bad attribute design, now I'm just entirely fed up with it. I wish gcc had a proper way to say "this type is a *byte* array, not a string". The obvious thing would be to distinguish between "char []" and an explicitly signed "unsigned char []" (as opposed to an implicitly unsigned char, which is typically an architecture-specific default, but for the kernel is universal thanks to '-funsigned-char'). But any "we can typedef a 8-bit type to not become a string just because it's an array" model would be fine. But "__attribute__((nonstring))" is sadly not that sane model. Reported-by: Chris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail.com> Fixes:4b4bd8c50f("gcc-15: acpi: sprinkle random '__nonstring' crumbles around") Fixes:d5d45a7f26("gcc-15: make 'unterminated string initialization' just a warning") Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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