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[v5,27/27] config.mak.dev: enable `-Wwrite-strings` warning

Message ID c714b67199572b9475852cafeac3133081306186.1717667854.git.ps@pks.im (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series Compile with `-Wwrite-strings` | expand

Commit Message

Patrick Steinhardt June 6, 2024, 10:29 a.m. UTC 
Writing to string constants is undefined behaviour and must be avoided
in C. Even so, the compiler does not help us with this by default
because those constants are not in fact marked as `const`. This makes it
rather easy to accidentally assign a constant to a non-const variable or
field and then later on try to either free it or write to it.

Enable `-Wwrite-strings` to catch such mistakes. With this warning
enabled, the type of string constants is changed to `const char[]` and
will thus cause compiler warnings when being assigned to non-const
fields and variables.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
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 config.mak.dev | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
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diff --git a/config.mak.dev b/config.mak.dev
index 981304727c..1ce4c70613 100644
--- a/config.mak.dev
+++ b/config.mak.dev
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@  DEVELOPER_CFLAGS += -Wpointer-arith
 DEVELOPER_CFLAGS += -Wstrict-prototypes
 DEVELOPER_CFLAGS += -Wunused
 DEVELOPER_CFLAGS += -Wvla
+DEVELOPER_CFLAGS += -Wwrite-strings
 DEVELOPER_CFLAGS += -fno-common
 
 ifneq ($(filter clang4,$(COMPILER_FEATURES)),)