[Bug c/81117] Improve buffer overflow checking in strncpy

dimhen at gmail dot com gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org
Mon Nov 13 08:37:00 GMT 2017


https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81117

--- Comment #12 from Dmitry G. Dyachenko <dimhen at gmail dot com> ---
char *strncpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t n);
void foo(char* p)
{
    strncpy(p, "1", 1);
    p[1] = 0;
}

with gcc8/r254663 is this expected?

$ gcc -c -Wall x.c
x.c: In function ‘foo’:
x.c:4:5: warning: ‘strncpy’ output truncated before terminating nul copying 1
byte from a string of the same length [-Wstringop-truncation]
     strncpy(p, "1", 1);
     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


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