Compiler warnings when building utilities in ft2demos

[WILSON, MICHAEL]

Good afternoon,

 

When building FreeType, GCC is warning of strncpy() calls which are not nul terminated.

Probably not a big problem in view of the context.

 

Example :

 

src/ftchkwd.c:172:9: warning: 'strncpy' output truncated before terminating nul

copying 4 bytes from a string of the same length [-Wstringop-truncation]

         strncpy( filename + strlen( filename ), ".ttf", 4 );

         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

src/ftchkwd.c:173:9: warning: 'strncpy' output truncated before terminating nul

copying 4 bytes from a string of the same length [-Wstringop-truncation]

         strncpy( alt_filename + strlen( alt_filename ), ".ttc", 4 );

         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

There are 8 source files using the same code sequence to append “.ttf” or “.ttc” to filenames.

Two of them (ftdump.c, ftlint.c) will copy the nul (5^th byte).

Six do not (compos.c, ftchkwd.c, ftmemchk.c, ftsbit.c, fttimer.c, fttry.c).

 

 

# grepall '\.ttf' | grep 'strncpy.*4'                          

./ft2demos-2.10.1/src/compos.c:102:        strncpy( filename + strlen( filename ), ".ttf", 4 );

./ft2demos-2.10.1/src/ftchkwd.c:172:        strncpy( filename + strlen( filename ), ".ttf", 4 );

./ft2demos-2.10.1/src/ftmemchk.c:273:        strncpy( filename + strlen( filename ), ".ttf", 4 );

./ft2demos-2.10.1/src/ftsbit.c:206:      strncpy( filename + strlen( filename ), ".ttf", 4 );

./ft2demos-2.10.1/src/fttimer.c:233:      strncpy( filename + strlen( filename ), ".ttf", 4 );

./ft2demos-2.10.1/src/fttry.c:119:        strncpy( filename + strlen( filename ), ".ttf", 4 );

 

 

Thanks.

 

Mike Wilson