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The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
introduced in C99:
struct foo {
int stuff;
struct boo array[];
};
By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning
in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which
will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being
inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.
Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by
this change:
"Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1]
This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.
[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
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| clock.h | ||
| coredump.h | ||
| cpufreq.h | ||
| cputime.h | ||
| deadline.h | ||
| debug.h | ||
| hotplug.h | ||
| idle.h | ||
| init.h | ||
| isolation.h | ||
| jobctl.h | ||
| loadavg.h | ||
| mm.h | ||
| nohz.h | ||
| numa_balancing.h | ||
| prio.h | ||
| rt.h | ||
| signal.h | ||
| smt.h | ||
| stat.h | ||
| sysctl.h | ||
| task_stack.h | ||
| task.h | ||
| topology.h | ||
| types.h | ||
| user.h | ||
| wake_q.h | ||
| xacct.h | ||