RFR(S): 8252407: Build failure with gcc-8+ and asan

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Wed Sep 2 09:32:11 UTC 2020


On 01/09/2020 09:57, David Holmes wrote:
> We already build with gcc 9.2 and don't see any issues with shared code
> compiling for hotspot - which of these require --enable-asan? It
> certainly looks like an unnecessary warning - the whole point of strncpy
> is to truncate at a safe length. :(

Yes, exactly. As long as the destination buffer isn't overrun, the code
is working as it should.

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