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From: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
To: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org
Cc: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/13] gdb/dwarf2: remove uses of sprintf
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:35:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h5ks3dty.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260817151646.152571-9-simon.marchi@efficios.com>

Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com> writes:

> When building on macOS, I get some:
>
>     /Users/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/dwarf2/read.c:3773:4: error: 'sprintf' is deprecated: This function is provided for compatibility reasons only.  Due to security concerns inherent in the design of sprintf(3), it is highly recommended that you use snprintf(3) instead. [-Werror,-Wdeprecated-declarations]
>      3773 |           sprintf (buf, "TU %s at offset %s", hex_string (sig_type->signature),
>           |           ^
>
> Replace them with xsnprintf, which takes the destination size and asserts
> that the output was not truncated.

Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>

Thanks,
Andrew
>
> Change-Id: Ie0324f75e5d4aad9b647007848459bf4af5998a6
> ---
>  gdb/dwarf2/read.c | 9 +++++----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gdb/dwarf2/read.c b/gdb/dwarf2/read.c
> index ca475f53745d..a8b99425554a 100644
> --- a/gdb/dwarf2/read.c
> +++ b/gdb/dwarf2/read.c
> @@ -3770,15 +3770,16 @@ process_queue (dwarf2_per_objfile *per_objfile)
>        if (signatured_type *sig_type = per_cu->as_signatured_type ();
>  	  sig_type != nullptr)
>  	{
> -	  sprintf (buf, "TU %s at offset %s", hex_string (sig_type->signature),
> -		   sect_offset_str (per_cu->sect_off ()));
> +	  xsnprintf (buf, sizeof (buf), "TU %s at offset %s",
> +		     hex_string (sig_type->signature),
> +		     sect_offset_str (per_cu->sect_off ()));
>  	  /* There can be 100s of TUs.  Only print them in verbose mode.  */
>  	  debug_print_threshold = 2;
>  	}
>        else
>  	{
> -	  sprintf (buf, "CU at offset %s",
> -		   sect_offset_str (per_cu->sect_off ()));
> +	  xsnprintf (buf, sizeof (buf), "CU at offset %s",
> +		     sect_offset_str (per_cu->sect_off ()));
>  	  debug_print_threshold = 1;
>  	}
>  
> -- 
> 2.55.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-17 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-17 15:16 [PATCH 00/13] Fix various warnings when building on macOS Simon Marchi
2026-08-17 15:16 ` [PATCH 01/13] gdbsupport: remove uses of vsprintf Simon Marchi
2026-08-17 15:47   ` Andrew Burgess
2026-08-17 15:16 ` [PATCH 02/13] gdbsupport: remove uses of sprintf Simon Marchi
2026-08-17 15:49   ` Andrew Burgess
2026-08-17 15:16 ` [PATCH 03/13] opcodes/z80: remove use " Simon Marchi
2026-08-18  6:40   ` Jan Beulich
2026-08-18 16:48     ` Simon Marchi
2026-08-17 15:16 ` [PATCH 04/13] sim/ppc: make defines.h sed command portable Simon Marchi
2026-08-17 15:36   ` Andrew Burgess
2026-08-17 15:16 ` [PATCH 05/13] sim/m32r: fix unused variable warning on non-Linux hosts Simon Marchi
2026-08-17 15:36   ` Andrew Burgess
2026-08-17 15:16 ` [PATCH 06/13] sim/m32r: fix unused function warnings " Simon Marchi
2026-08-17 15:37   ` Andrew Burgess
2026-08-17 15:16 ` [PATCH 07/13] gdb/csky: remove uses of sprintf Simon Marchi
2026-08-17 16:26   ` Andrew Burgess
2026-08-17 17:03     ` Simon Marchi
2026-08-17 20:50     ` Tom Tromey
2026-08-18 18:26       ` Simon Marchi
2026-08-17 15:16 ` [PATCH 08/13] gdb/dwarf2: " Simon Marchi
2026-08-17 16:35   ` Andrew Burgess [this message]
2026-08-17 15:16 ` [PATCH 09/13] gdb/elfread: remove use " Simon Marchi
2026-08-17 16:38   ` Andrew Burgess
2026-08-17 15:16 ` [PATCH 10/13] gdbsupport: add xstrcpy Simon Marchi
2026-08-17 16:45   ` Andrew Burgess
2026-08-17 17:30     ` Simon Marchi
2026-08-17 15:16 ` [PATCH 11/13] gdb/remote-fileio: remove uses of sprintf Simon Marchi
2026-08-17 16:53   ` Andrew Burgess
2026-08-17 15:16 ` [PATCH 12/13] gdb/remote: " Simon Marchi
2026-08-17 16:51   ` Andrew Burgess
2026-08-17 17:34     ` Simon Marchi
2026-08-17 15:16 ` [PATCH 13/13] gdb/tracepoint: " Simon Marchi
2026-08-17 16:51   ` Andrew Burgess
2026-08-17 20:52 ` [PATCH 00/13] Fix various warnings when building on macOS Tom Tromey
2026-08-18 18:10 ` Simon Marchi

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