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A bug beginning in gcc version 9.2 causes strings to get incorrectly stripped when passed directly to memcmp with a zero first byte (1). This bug causes flac -t to fail on any .flac file with a md5 checksum beginning in 00. To work around this bug, the FLAC__byte type is used for an empty md5 sum to prevent a string from being stripped, which is backwards compatible and avoids compile-time checks. This was initially reported back in March 2020, but has seen more light since Ubuntu 19.10 and up ship with gcc 9.2 as the default compiler. A patch has been merged into the master gcc branch (2), but has not been included in any versions as of this commit date. The initial reporter provided a patch in their bug report (3), which is included in this PR with authorship attributed to the reporter. (1) https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=95189 (2) https://gcc.gnu.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=gcc.git;h=d5803b9876b3d11c93d1a10fabb3fbb1c4a14bd6 (3) https://sourceforge.net/p/flac/bugs/478/ Closes #192.
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