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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] Fix strncpy() warnings for GCC8 new -Wst


From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] Fix strncpy() warnings for GCC8 new -Wstringop-truncation
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 18:54:51 +0100
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On 12/18/18 6:51 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> GCC 8 new warning prevents builds to success since quite some time.
> First report on the mailing list is in July 2018:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-07/msg03723.html
> 
> Various intents has been sent to fix this:
> - Incorrectly using g_strlcpy()
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-08/msg03705.html
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-08/msg03706.html
> - Using assert() and strpadcpy()
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg03938.html

And I forgot to add here:

  This was the approch taken by the previous v2:
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-12/msg04405.html

> - Use #pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wstringop-truncation"
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-12/msg04261.html
> - adding an inline wrapper with said pragma in there
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-12/msg04261.html
> - -Wno-stringop-truncation is the makefile
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-12/msg04261.html
> - Use the 'nonstring' attribute
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-12/msg04493.html
> 
> This series add the QEMU_NONSTRING definition and use it.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phil.



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