How to boundary check in gcc / mingw?

Posted by Hernán Eche on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Hernán Eche
Published on 2010-06-10T13:11:11Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 13:12 UTC
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gcc

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memory-allocation

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mingw

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check

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boundary

Having tried this

int main(void) {

int a[10]; a[20]=5;

}

gcc -Wall -O2 main.c

It gives me no warning...

It's gcc within windows (mingw) and I am not able to detect this kind of boundary limit bug

how to tell compiler to check it? can mingw do it?

thanks

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