Article 6JASB Torvalds Has It With "-Wstringop-overflow" On GCC Due To Kernel Breakage

Torvalds Has It With "-Wstringop-overflow" On GCC Due To Kernel Breakage

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One of the new features for Linux 6.8 that was merged late was enabling the -Wstringop-overflow compiler option to warn about possible buffer overflows in cases where the compiler can detect such possible overflows at compile-time. While it's nice in theory, issues on GCC has led Linus Torvalds to disabling this compiler option as of now Linux 6.8...
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