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Re: [Patch] Use memcpy instead of strncpy in nscd/nscd.h to fix build problem with ToT GCC
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Steve Ellcey <sellcey at cavium dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 21:26:48 +0000
- Subject: Re: [Patch] Use memcpy instead of strncpy in nscd/nscd.h to fix build problem with ToT GCC
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On Tue, 12 Dec 2017, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> The latest ToT GCC is warning about the use of strncpy in nscd/nscd.h.
> The strncpy is intentionally truncating a string so the warning is not
> really useful in this instance. Joseph suggested changing it to
> a memcpy and that seems to work fine. I built glibc with ToT GCC
> using this patch and ran the glibc test with no regressions on aarch64.
>
> OK to checkin?
OK.
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Joseph S. Myers
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