From: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sourceware.org
Cc: msebor@redhat.com
Subject: Fail to compile GDB with recent GCC trunk (-Werror=stringop-overflow=, -Werror=stringop-truncation)
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 15:51:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86r2strlrd.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
Hi,
I failed to compile GDB with GCC trunk (8.0.0 20171117) because of some
-Werror=stringop-overflow= and -Werror=stringop-truncation warnings.
Some of them are not necessary to me,
1. ../../binutils-gdb/gdb/python/py-gdb-readline.c:79:15: error: ‘char* strncpy(char*, const char*, size_t)’ output truncated before terminating nul copying as many bytes from a string as its length [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
strncpy (q, p, n);
~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~
../../binutils-gdb/gdb/python/py-gdb-readline.c:73:14: note: length computed here
n = strlen (p);
~~~~~~~^~~
the code is simple,
n = strlen (p);
/* Copy the line to Python and return. */
q = (char *) PyMem_RawMalloc (n + 2);
if (q != NULL)
{
strncpy (q, p, n);
q[n] = '\n';
q[n + 1] = '\0';
}
I don't see the point of warning here.
2. ../../binutils-gdb/gdb/cp-namespace.c:1071:11: error: ‘char* strncpy(char*, const char*, size_t)’ output truncated before terminating nul copying 2 bytes from a string of the same length [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
strncpy (full_name + scope_length, "::", 2);
~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
full_name = (char *) alloca (scope_length + 2 + strlen (name) + 1);
strncpy (full_name, scope, scope_length);
strncpy (full_name + scope_length, "::", 2);
strcpy (full_name + scope_length + 2, name);
the code looks right to me,
Likewise,
../../../binutils-gdb/gdb/gdbserver/remote-utils.c:1204:14: error: ‘char* strncpy(char*, const char*, size_t)’ output truncated before terminating nul copying 6 bytes from a string of the same length [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
strncpy (buf, "watch:", 6);
~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
strncpy (buf, "watch:", 6);
buf += 6;
....
*buf = '\0';
I can "fix" these warnings by changing GDB code, use strcpy in 1) and
use memcpy in 2). Do we expect all the users of GCC 8 changing their
correct code because GCC is not happy on the code? The warning is too
aggressive to me.
--
Yao (齐尧)
next reply other threads:[~2017-11-20 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-20 15:51 Yao Qi [this message]
2017-11-20 16:25 ` Eric Gallager
2017-11-22 16:16 ` Eric Gallager
2017-11-20 16:33 ` Martin Sebor
2017-11-20 22:11 ` Yao Qi
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