5 files changed, 11 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/src/stdlib/cli.c b/src/stdlib/cli.c
index 2d54d330..de3b804e 100644
--- a/src/stdlib/cli.c
+++ b/src/stdlib/cli.c
@@ -199,7 +199,6 @@ void _tomo_parse_args(int argc, char *argv[], Text_t usage, Text_t help, const c
         if (argv[i][0] == '-' && argv[i][1] == '-') {
             if (argv[i][2] == '\0') { // "--" signals the rest of the arguments are literal
                 used_args[i] = true;
-                i += 1;
                 break;
             }
 
diff --git a/src/stdlib/paths.c b/src/stdlib/paths.c
index 76d0d629..73f62975 100644
--- a/src/stdlib/paths.c
+++ b/src/stdlib/paths.c
@@ -330,10 +330,11 @@ OptionalList_t Path$read_bytes(Path_t path, OptionalInt_t count) {
             // be closed by GC finalizers.
             GC_gcollect();
             fd = open(path_str, O_RDONLY);
-            if (fd == -1) return NONE_LIST;
         }
     }
 
+    if (fd == -1) return NONE_LIST;
+
     struct stat sb;
     if (fstat(fd, &sb) != 0) return NONE_LIST;
 
diff --git a/src/stdlib/stacktrace.c b/src/stdlib/stacktrace.c
index 0953e660..b21d0cbc 100644
--- a/src/stdlib/stacktrace.c
+++ b/src/stdlib/stacktrace.c
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ static void fprint_context(FILE *out, const char *filename, int lineno, int cont
         num_width += 1;
 
     while ((nread = getline(&line, &size, f)) != -1) {
-        if (line[strlen(line) - 1] == '\n') line[strlen(line) - 1] = '\0';
+        if (line[nread - 1] == '\n') line[nread - 1] = '\0';
 
         if (cur_line >= lineno - context_before) {
             int w = 1;
diff --git a/src/stdlib/stdlib.c b/src/stdlib/stdlib.c
index 5204194b..dd6f804d 100644
--- a/src/stdlib/stdlib.c
+++ b/src/stdlib/stdlib.c
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ void tomo_init(void) {
     GC_INIT();
     const char *color_env = getenv("COLOR");
     USE_COLOR = color_env ? strcmp(color_env, "1") == 0 : isatty(STDOUT_FILENO);
-    if (getenv("NO_COLOR") && getenv("NO_COLOR")[0] != '\0') USE_COLOR = false;
+    const char *no_color_env = getenv("NO_COLOR");
+    if (no_color_env && no_color_env[0] != '\0') USE_COLOR = false;
 
     setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
     assert(getrandom(TOMO_HASH_KEY, sizeof(TOMO_HASH_KEY), 0) == sizeof(TOMO_HASH_KEY));
diff --git a/src/stdlib/tables.c b/src/stdlib/tables.c
index 3c78b770..45e3abb4 100644
--- a/src/stdlib/tables.c
+++ b/src/stdlib/tables.c
@@ -732,20 +732,20 @@ void Table$serialize(const void *obj, FILE *out, Table_t *pointers, const TypeIn
     if (t->fallback) Table$serialize(t->fallback, out, pointers, type);
 }
 
-#ifdef __GNUC__
-#pragma GCC diagnostic push
-#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wstack-protector"
-#endif
 public
 void Table$deserialize(FILE *in, void *outval, List_t *pointers, const TypeInfo_t *type) {
     int64_t len;
     Int64$deserialize(in, &len, pointers, &Int$info);
 
     Table_t t = EMPTY_TABLE;
+    char keybuf[256], valbuf[256];
+    char *key =
+        (size_t)type->TableInfo.key->size <= sizeof(keybuf) ? keybuf : GC_MALLOC((size_t)type->TableInfo.key->size);
+    char *value =
+        (size_t)type->TableInfo.value->size <= sizeof(valbuf) ? valbuf : GC_MALLOC((size_t)type->TableInfo.value->size);
+
     for (int64_t i = 0; i < len; i++) {
-        char key[type->TableInfo.key->size];
         _deserialize(in, key, pointers, type->TableInfo.key);
-        char value[type->TableInfo.value->size];
         if (type->TableInfo.value->size > 0) _deserialize(in, value, pointers, type->TableInfo.value);
         Table$set(&t, key, value, type);
     }
@@ -757,6 +757,3 @@ void Table$deserialize(FILE *in, void *outval, List_t *pointers, const TypeInfo_
 
     *(Table_t *)outval = t;
 }
-#ifdef __GNUC__
-#pragma GCC diagnostic pop
-#endif