On 15.04.2025 19:04, David Laight wrote: > > Doesn't than generate an 'unknown attribute' error on older compilers? > > Does: > typedef char char_nonstring __attribute__((nonstring)); > char_nonstring name[4] = "abcd"; > work? > > If so the attribute could even be applied to 'u8'. > > David David, what if I used the __nonstring attribute from include/linux/compiler_attributes.h which defines the following #if __has_attribute(__nonstring__) # define __nonstring __attribute__((__nonstring__)) #else # define __nonstring #endif Which I came across from https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/programming-language.html#attributes Also the checkpatch.pl scripts suggests using that instead. I guess this would work from older compilers as well. -- Regards, listout
