[12] RFR: 8214777: Avoid some GCC 8.X strncpy() errors in HotSpot

Kim Barrett kim.barrett at oracle.com
Tue Dec 11 16:14:43 UTC 2018


> On Dec 10, 2018, at 1:57 PM, Simon Tooke <stooke at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> This small patch fixes some simple warnings in Hotspot code, found by
> GCC 8.1

What, exactly, is the warning?

Whatever the warning is, having common false positives is really unpleasant, and should be reported.
Is there a gcc bug for this?  Is the warning sufficiently fine grained to be reasonable to disable?  Or
maybe disable until such time as the false positives get fixed?




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