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Re: Silence gcc-8 warnings


On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 04:27:46PM +0200, Michael Matz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2018, Alan Modra wrote:
> 
> > Hi Michael,
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 03:42:02PM +0200, Michael Matz wrote:
> > > On Mon, 23 Apr 2018, Alan Modra wrote:
> > > 
> > > > All of these warnings were false positives.  -Wstringop-truncation is
> > > > particularly annoying when it warns about strncpy used quite correctly.
> > > 
> > > Which version of gcc-8 were you using?
> > 
> > r259533
> 
> Hmm, curious, can't be my change then; anyway I'm glad it doesn't happen 
> anymore (because yes, the new -Wstrinop-truncation warnings also brought 
> headaches for distro builds :-/ )

Yeah, really curious.  I failed to mention that gcc build was on
hppa-linux, whereas the one that didn't show any error was on
x86_64-linux.  I have a little sleuthing to do to figure out what made
the difference.  It doesn't seem likely that it was any of the more
recent gcc patches.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM


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