Silence compiler warning for strncat. #77
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When compiling with newer GCC versions the following warning is emitted:
In file included from /usr/include/string.h:495,
from net.c:57:
In function ‘strncat’,
inlined from ‘read_remote.part.0’ at net.c:168:4:
/usr/include/bits/string_fortified.h:136:10: warning: ‘__builtin___strncat_chk’ output
may be truncated copying between 0 and 1023 bytes from a string of length 2047 [-Wstringop-truncation]
136 | return __builtin___strncat_chk (__dest, __src, __len, __bos (__dest));
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Similar reports can be found on the interwebs:
Fix FTBFS with GCC-9 (Closes: #925677)
https://salsa.debian.org/fcoe-team/fcoe-utils/-/blob/master/debian/patches/fix-gcc-warnings.patch
gcc warns strncat() as terminating nul is not copied while it need not
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1798636
This patch sheepishly attempts to follow these examples and the warning is now no
longer present. The program compiles but it may not be the right thing to do, please
verify!
net.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)