Re: [platform-testers] texinfo-6.6.90 pretest

[Gavin Smith]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 9:35 PM 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.

I think we can happily ignore these warnings.