Hi, I failed to compile GDB with GCC trunk (8.0.0 20171117) because of some -Werror=stringop-overflow= and -Werror=stringop-truncation warnings. Some of them are not necessary to me,
1. ../../binutils-gdb/gdb/python/py-gdb-readline.c:79:15: error: ‘char* strncpy(char*, const char*, size_t)’ output truncated before terminating nul copying as many bytes from a string as its length [-Werror=stringop-truncation] strncpy (q, p, n); ~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~ ../../binutils-gdb/gdb/python/py-gdb-readline.c:73:14: note: length computed here n = strlen (p); ~~~~~~~^~~ the code is simple, n = strlen (p); /* Copy the line to Python and return. */ q = (char *) PyMem_RawMalloc (n + 2); if (q != NULL) { strncpy (q, p, n); q[n] = '\n'; q[n + 1] = '\0'; } I don't see the point of warning here. 2. ../../binutils-gdb/gdb/cp-namespace.c:1071:11: error: ‘char* strncpy(char*, const char*, size_t)’ output truncated before terminating nul copying 2 bytes from a string of the same length [-Werror=stringop-truncation] strncpy (full_name + scope_length, "::", 2); ~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ full_name = (char *) alloca (scope_length + 2 + strlen (name) + 1); strncpy (full_name, scope, scope_length); strncpy (full_name + scope_length, "::", 2); strcpy (full_name + scope_length + 2, name); the code looks right to me, Likewise, ../../../binutils-gdb/gdb/gdbserver/remote-utils.c:1204:14: error: ‘char* strncpy(char*, const char*, size_t)’ output truncated before terminating nul copying 6 bytes from a string of the same length [-Werror=stringop-truncation] strncpy (buf, "watch:", 6); ~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ strncpy (buf, "watch:", 6); buf += 6; .... *buf = '\0'; I can "fix" these warnings by changing GDB code, use strcpy in 1) and use memcpy in 2). Do we expect all the users of GCC 8 changing their correct code because GCC is not happy on the code? The warning is too aggressive to me. -- Yao (齐尧)