Tons of unterminated-string-initialization building 8.4.16 using clang21
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Rebuilding 8.4.16 using clang 21.1.8 I see logs are overbloated with the warnings like
/builds/alpine/aports/community/php84/src/php-8.4.16/ext/fileinfo/libmagic/../data_file.c:5:1: warning: initializer-string for character array is too long, array size is 1024 but initializer has size 1025 (including the null terminating character); did you mean to use the 'nonstring' attribute? [-Wunterminated-string-initialization]
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also there's a few
In file included from /builds/alpine/aports/community/php84/src/php-8.4.16/ext/dom/lexbor/lexbor/html/tokenizer/state.c:21:
/builds/alpine/aports/community/php84/src/php-8.4.16/ext/dom/lexbor/lexbor/html/tokenizer/res.h:209:38: warning: initializer-string for character array is too long, array size is 6 but initializer has size 7 (including the null terminating character); did you mean to use the 'nonstring' attribute? [-Wunterminated-string-initialization]
209 | {0x76, {0}, 0, 367, 0, 368}, {0x3b, "\xe2\x89\xaa\xe2\x83\x92", 6, 0, 0, 0},
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/builds/alpine/aports/community/php84/src/php-8.4.16/ext/dom/lexbor/lexbor/html/tokenizer/res.h:226:38: warning: initializer-string for character array is too long, array size is 6 but initializer has size 7 (including the null terminating character); did you mean to use the 'nonstring' attribute? [-Wunterminated-string-initialization]
226 | {0x76, {0}, 0, 401, 0, 402}, {0x3b, "\xe2\x89\xab\xe2\x83\x92", 6, 0, 0, 0},
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I see it was fixed some time ago in https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/17687 but started to fire not so long ago
PHP Version
8.4.16
Operating System
Alpinelinux
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Research direction
Reproduce the PHP 8.4.16 build with clang 21 and inspect the warnings in ext/fileinfo/libmagic/data_file.c and ext/dom/lexbor/lexbor/html/tokenizer/res.h. Read issue 17687 for related context, then compare the affected generated or source data. Done means the reported unterminated-string-initialization warnings are addressed without breaking the build.
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