As discussed at (*) I'd like to backport the following patch to GCC 8 to suppress a class of -Wstringop-truncation warnings. If there are no concerns/objections I will go ahead and commit it this week.
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-05/msg00509.html Thanks Martin *) https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-05/msg01170.html