On 9 August 2018 at 21:30, Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org> wrote:
> pgbench.c: In function 'ParseScript':
> pgbench.c:2640:20: warning: '__builtin___sprintf_chk' may write a terminating
> nul past the end of the destination [-Wformat-overflow=]
> sprintf(var, "$%d", cmd->argc);
> ^
> In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:862,
> from ../../../src/include/c.h:81,
> from ../../../src/include/postgres_fe.h:25,
> from pgbench.c:34:
> /usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:33:10: note: '__builtin___sprintf_chk' output
> between 3 and 13 bytes into a destination of size 12
> return __builtin___sprintf_chk (__s, __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL - 1,
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> __bos (__s), __fmt, __va_arg_pack ());
Generally, new warnings from newer compilers are not fixed in older
branches. This particular warning was fixed in master in [1] and the
discussion was in [2].
The warning is pretty false anyway since cmd->argc won't be negative.
[1] https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=3a4b891964a531aa7d242a48fcd9e41379863ead
[2] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/304a21ab-a9d6-264a-f688-912869c0d7c6@2ndquadrant.com
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