Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v2 0/3] Fix strncpy() warnings for GCC8 new -Wstringop-truncation

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 18/12/18 15:31, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Do you happen to know why does it build fine with
> Gcc 8.2.1?
> 
> Reading the GCC manual it seems that
> there is a "nostring" attribute that means
> "might not be 0 terminated".
> I think we should switch to that which fixes the warning
> but also warns if someone tries to misuse these
> as C-strings.
> 
> Seems to be a better option, does it not?
> 
> 

Using strpadcpy is clever and self-documenting, though.  We have it
already, so why not use it.

Paolo