On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 08:54:08AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
 On 9/3/20 4:41 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
 >Previously with GCC 10.2 this code produced:
 >
 >In function ‘nbdkit_strndup_intern’,
 >     inlined from ‘nbdkit_strdup_intern’ at public.c:839:10:
 >public.c:827:10: error: ‘strndup’ specified bound 18446744073709551615 exceeds
maximum object size 9223372036854775807 [-Werror=stringop-overflow=]
 >   827 |   copy = strndup (str, n);
 >       |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 >---
 >  server/public.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 >  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 >
 
 I find the gcc warning annoying, but this workaround is fine (and
 potentially even a bit more efficient, because it uses fewer
 function calls).
 
 ACK, regardless of whether gcc also agrees with your bug report. 
Nope they didn't :-(
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=96916
Rich.
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