Re: [PATCH] shell32: use flexible arrays to avoid fortify failures

[Alexandre Julliard]

Mike Frysinger <vapier(a)gentoo.org> writes:
> i dont see how that would help.  the code is currently:
> typedef struct ... {
>   ...
>   CHAR foo[1];
> } ...;
>
> it needs to be "foo[]".  ANYSIZE_ARRAY is defined as 1, so once the 
> preprocessor is done, we're right back where we started.  i cant change the 
> value of ANYSIZE_ARRAY to nothing because some code uses this define in 
> multiplication to calculate the size of objects.

True, you don't want to change the public one, but you can define a
shell32-specific version of it. At least then it looks like a normal
array declaration.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard(a)winehq.org