On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 08:54:34AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > I am seeing strange and questionable messages while attempting a compile > and then test of GNU gettext 0.18.3.2 thus : > > ../gnulib-lib/.libs/libgettextlib.so: warning: stpcpy() is dangerous GNU crap; > don't use it > ../gnulib-lib/.libs/libgettextlib.so: warning: strcpy() is almost always > misused, please use strlcpy() > ../gnulib-lib/.libs/libgettextlib.so: warning: strcat() is almost always > misused, please use strlcat() > ../gnulib-lib/.libs/libgettextlib.so: warning: sprintf() is often misused, > please use snprintf() > > > Are these messages coming from within the OpenBSD world ? > > dc >
Very much so. Check out http://www.gratisoft.us/todd/papers/strlcpy.html Also do some searches on mailing lists, excellent messages about subject. And follow advice if you write any code. Chris Bennett
