[PATCH setup] Avoid stringop-overflow warning with gcc8

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Sat Oct 13 12:50:00 GMT 2018


On 12/10/2018 16:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 12 16:43, Jon Turney wrote:
[...]
>> diff --git a/desktop.cc b/desktop.cc
>> index 927c02f..d003e91 100644
>> --- a/desktop.cc
>> +++ b/desktop.cc
>> @@ -107,7 +107,8 @@ start_menu (const std::string& title, const std::string& target,
>>   			      issystem ? CSIDL_COMMON_PROGRAMS :
>>   			      CSIDL_PROGRAMS, &id);
>>     SHGetPathFromIDList (id, path);
>> -  strncat (path, "/Cygwin", MAX_PATH);
>> +  strncat (path, "/Cygwin", MAX_PATH - strlen(path));
> 
> Shouldn't that be
> 
>       strncat (path, "/Cygwin", MAX_PATH - strlen(path) - 1);
> 
> ?

Yes!  I have no idea what I was thinking!

Thanks.

> "If src contains n or more bytes, strncat() writes n+1 bytes to dest  (n
>   from  src plus the terminating null byte).  Therefore, the size of dest
>   must be at least strlen(dest)+n+1."



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