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

A flexible array member was found that is initialized with a designated initializer.

Coding standards

Code examples

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

struct A {
        int x;
        int y [];
};
struct A a1 = {1,{[1]=2}};

void example (void) {

}

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

struct A {
        int x;
        int y [2];
};
struct A a1 = {1,{[1]=2}};

void example (void) {

}