Re: [PATCH 1/2] Handle component_ref to a structre/union field including flexible array member [PR101832]

[Qing Zhao via Gcc-patches]

> On Feb 7, 2023, at 10:28 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddh...@gotplt.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2023-02-06 18:14, Joseph Myers wrote:
>> On Mon, 6 Feb 2023, Qing Zhao via Gcc-patches wrote:
>>> In GCC14:
>>> 
>>> 1. Include this new warning -Wgnu-varaible-sized-type-not-at-end to -Wall
>>> 2. Deprecate this extension from GCC. (Or delay this to next release?).
>> Any deprecation, or inclusion in -Wall, would best come with evidence
>> about the prevalance of use (possibly unintentional, probably undesirable)
>> of these extensions.  For example, maybe someone could do a distribution
>> rebuild with a patch to enable these warnings and report the results?
> 
> FWIW, Fred from our team has been working on a mass prebuilder that can be 
> used for this kind of distribution-wide validation.  I've used it for 
> _FORTIFY_SOURCE validation as well as coverage analysis.
> 
> I can help you with this Qing, once you have a patch ready.

Thanks a lot!

Qing
> 
> Sid
> 
> [1] https://gitlab.com/fedora/packager-tools/mass-prebuild/