Synopsis

(Required) Where designated initializers are used to initialize an array object the size of the array shall be specified explicitly.

Enabled by default

Yes

Severity/Certainty

Medium/Medium

Full description

Arrays, initialized with designated initializers but with no fixed length, were found.

Coding standards

Code examples

The following code example fails the check and will give a warning:

void example(void) {
  int a1[] = { [0] = 1 };
}

The following code example passes the check and will not give a warning about this issue:

void example(void) {
  int a1[10] = { [0] = 1 };
}