Comment 16 for bug 1803872

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mst (mst-0) wrote : Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] Fix strncpy() warnings for GCC8 new -Wstringop-truncation

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 06:51:17PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> GCC 8 new warning prevents builds to success since quite some time.
> First report on the mailing list is in July 2018:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-07/msg03723.html
>
> Various intents has been sent to fix this:
> - Incorrectly using g_strlcpy()
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-08/msg03705.html
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-08/msg03706.html
> - Using assert() and strpadcpy()
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg03938.html
> - Use #pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wstringop-truncation"
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-12/msg04261.html
> - adding an inline wrapper with said pragma in there
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-12/msg04261.html
> - -Wno-stringop-truncation is the makefile
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-12/msg04261.html
> - Use the 'nonstring' attribute
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-12/msg04493.html
>
> This series add the QEMU_NONSTRING definition and use it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil.

Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <email address hidden>

> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (5):
> qemu/compiler: Define QEMU_NONSTRING
> block/sheepdog: Use QEMU_NONSTRING for non NUL-terminated arrays
> hw/acpi: Use QEMU_NONSTRING for non NUL-terminated arrays
> migration: Use QEMU_NONSTRING for non NUL-terminated arrays
> migration: Use strnlen() for fixed-size string
>
> block/sheepdog.c | 2 +-
> hw/acpi/core.c | 8 ++++----
> include/hw/acpi/acpi-defs.h | 8 ++++----
> include/qemu/compiler.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
> migration/global_state.c | 4 ++--
> 5 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.17.2