strcpy -> strlcpy?
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Tue Jan 4 15:16:34 PST 2005
:If you're interested, we've got some simple modifications in the OpenBSD
:gcc (both 2.95 and 3.3) which checks for these kinds of errors. It
:does need relevant functions like strlcpy(3) to be marked up with
:attributes to indicate which arguments are buffers and which are buffer
:sizes.
:
:I haven't had a chance to feed these back into gcc, but they should be
:pretty easy to extract from the OpenBSD tree, and are documented here:
:http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gcc-local
:
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:Anil Madhavapeddy http://anil.recoil.org
:University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk
Well... I think that might be overkill. I can see where it would help
people doing large code updates but in all the code I've ever looked at
in FreeBSD and DragonFly I found that sort of sizeof(pointer) conversion
error only once or twice, a few years ago in the FreeBSD tree. That just
isn't enough to justify maintaining a compiler hack for it.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
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