https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83404
Martin Sebor <msebor at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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See Also| |https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzill
| |a/show_bug.cgi?id=83412
--- Comment #3 from Martin Sebor <msebor at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
It should and does as long as the result is used (see below) and as long as
some GCC bug doesn't get in the way. When <string.h> defines strncat as macro
like in Glibc 2.24 the warning doesn't trigger. I opened bug 83412 for it.
There's also bug 82944 that I thought was due to warnings being suppressed for
macros defined in system headers but maybe it's actually the same as bug 83412.
Phew.
$ cat a.c && gcc -O2 -S -Wall a.c
extern char* strncpy (char*, const char*, __SIZE_TYPE__);
extern char* strncat (char*, const char*, __SIZE_TYPE__);
int main (void)
{
char x[12];
strncpy (x, "", 12);
strncat (x, "aa", 1);
__builtin_puts (x);
}
a.c: In function ‘main’:
a.c:10:3: warning: ‘strncat’ output truncated copying 1 byte from a string of
length 2 [-Wstringop-truncation]
strncat (x, "aa", 1);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
