Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ppc: e500: use g_strdup_printf() instead of snprintf()

[Eric Blake]

On 05/07/2018 04:02 AM, Greg Kurz wrote:
> qemu-system-ppc fails to build with GCC 8.0.1:
>
> /home/hsp/src/qemu-master/hw/ppc/e500.c: In function ‘ppce500_load_device_tree’:
> /home/hsp/src/qemu-master/hw/ppc/e500.c:442:37: error: ‘/address@hidden
> directive output may be truncated writing 5 bytes into a region of
> size between 1 and 128 [-Werror=format-truncation=]
>       snprintf(mpic, sizeof(mpic), "%s/address@hidden", soc, 
> MPC8544_MPIC_REGS_OFFSET);
>                                       ^~~~~

> Fix this by converting e500 to use g_strdup_printf()+g_free() instead
> of snprintf(). This is done globally, even for call sites that don't
> break build, since this is the preferred practice in QEMU.
>
> Reported-by: Howard Spoelstra <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>
> ---
>   hw/ppc/e500.c |   39 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>   1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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