Bug 82944 - missing -Wstringop-truncation on strncpy due to system header macro
Summary: missing -Wstringop-truncation on strncpy due to system header macro
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: gcc
Classification: Unclassified
Component: tree-optimization (show other bugs)
Version: 8.0
: P3 normal
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Keywords: diagnostic
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Blocks: Wstringop-truncation
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Reported: 2017-11-10 18:09 UTC by Martin Sebor
Modified: 2021-11-05 23:18 UTC (History)
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Description Martin Sebor 2017-11-10 18:09:08 UTC 
The -Wstringop-truncation warning added in GCC 8.0 via r254630 for bug 81117 is specifically intended to highlight likely unintended uses of the strncpy function that truncate the terminating NUL charcter from the source string.  An example of such a misuse given in the request is the following:

  char buf[2];

  void test (const char* str)
  {
    strncpy (buf, str, strlen (str));
  }

As it turns out, although the new checker works correctly when strncpy is declared as a function, when it's defined as a shadow macro in a system header (as happens to be the case in in Glibc 2.24 and prior) the warning is suppressed:

$ (set -x && cat pr81117.c && for opt in '' '--include=string.h'; do gcc -O2 -S -Wall -Wextra $opt pr81117.c; done)
+ cat pr81117.c
extern __SIZE_TYPE__ strlen (const char*);
extern char* strncpy (char*, const char*, __SIZE_TYPE__);

char buf[2];

void test (const char* str)
{
  strncpy (buf, str, strlen (str));
}
+ for opt in ''\'''\''' ''\''--include=string.h'\'''
+ /ssd/build/gcc-svn/gcc/xgcc -B /ssd/build/gcc-svn/gcc -O2 -S -Wall -Wextra pr81117.c
pr81117.c: In function ‘test’:
pr81117.c:8:3: warning: ‘strncpy’ output truncated before terminating nul copying as many bytes from a string as its length [-Wstringop-truncation]
   strncpy (buf, str, strlen (str));
   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ for opt in ''\'''\''' ''\''--include=string.h'\'''
+ /ssd/build/gcc-svn/gcc/xgcc -B /ssd/build/gcc-svn/gcc -O2 -S -Wall -Wextra --include=string.h pr81117.c
Comment 1 Martin Sebor 2017-12-13 17:32:19 UTC 
I wonder if this is caused by the same underlying bug as pr83412.
Comment 2 Tim Turner 2021-11-05 23:18:52 UTC Comment hidden (spam)