Re: [platform-testers] texinfo-6.6.90 pretest

[Andreas Schwab]

On Aug 19 2019, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> One other issue is that GCC 8 flags many uses of strncat in
>> install-info.c as unsafe:
>> 
>>      install-info.c: In function 'split_entry':
>>      install-info.c:1624:17: warning: 'strncat' specified bound 2 equals 
>> source length [-Wstringop-overflow=]
>>                       strncat (*description, "  ", 2);
>>                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> 
>
> The warnings are clearly pointless, because the amount of memory
> allocated for *description is unknown to the compiler.

It's not about the size of *description, but the length of "  ", making
it equivalent to strcat.

Andreas.

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