Re: [PATCH] add attribute nonstring

[Martin Sebor <msebor at gmail dot com>]

On 11/10/2017 10:53 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2017, Martin Sebor wrote:
>
> > Attached is a patch to annotate such arrays in Glibc to prevent
> > warnings on x86_64 (I didn't test any other targets).  The patch
> > touches the timezone/tzfile.h header even though (IIUC) it comes
> > from another project.  I'm not familiar with the process for
> > keeping the timezone directory in sync with tzcode.  Please let
> > me know how you'd like to go about making this change.
>
> For tzcode the normal practice is a bulk update from the latest release of
> tzcode.  We might consider a fix from https://github.com/eggert/tz.git if
> something newer than the latest release is needed in a particular case,
> but release versions are preferred.

Okay, thanks.  I've read that you run periodic Glibc builds with
the latest GCC so I wanted to give you a heads up on this change
and the patch to avoid breaking them.  Unless that's not a concern
(do you use -Werror in those builds?) what is the best way to
coordinate this update?

I CC Paul for his input in case updating tzcode first is important.

Martin