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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Huawei Inc.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+# gtk uses zero-length array tricks that trigger warnings with
+# -Warray-bounds.
+#
+# Those have been verified to be harmless in 3.24.14.
+#
+# Removing -Werror=array-bounds here allows us to use -Werror=array-bounds
+# globally in OPTIMIZE_FOR=security mode while keeping gtk building.
+
+TARGET_CFLAGS_remove = "-Werror=array-bounds"