[PATCH] add attribute nonstring

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Wed Nov 15 23:14:00 GMT 2017


On Wed, 15 Nov 2017, Martin Sebor wrote:

> Sure.  I've got the attached patch.  According to the Linux utmp
> man page:
>        String fields are terminated by a null byte ('\0')
>        if they are shorter than the size of the field.
> 
> The patch lets Glibc compile fine with the top of GCC 8 trunk.

This patch is OK, with the corresponding change also to 
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/bits/utmp.h unless you have reason to believe 
that version of bits/utmp.h doesn't need changing.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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