From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 13/15] Compiler Attributes: enable -Wstringop-truncation
 on W=1 (gcc >= 8)
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 11:16:31 -0700
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To: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 10:23 AM Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Commit 217c3e019675 ("disable stringop truncation warnings for now")
> disabled -Wstringop-truncation since it was too noisy.
>
> Having __nonstring available allows us to let GCC know that a string
> is not meant to be NUL-terminated, which helps suppressing some
> -Wstringop-truncation warnings.
>
> Note that using __nonstring actually triggers other warnings
> (-Wstringop-overflow, which is on by default) which may be real
> problems. Therefore, cleaning up -Wstringop-truncation warnings
> also buys us the ability to uncover further potential problems.
>
> To encourage the use of __nonstring, we put the warning back at W=1.
> In the future, if we end up with a fairly warning-free tree,
> we might want to enable it by default.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
> ---
>  scripts/Makefile.extrawarn | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> index 8d5357053f86..b8f36f5f43f2 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wmissing-include-dirs)
>  warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-but-set-variable)
>  warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-const-variable)
>  warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wpacked-not-aligned)
> +warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wstringop-truncation)
>  warning-1 += $(call cc-disable-warning, missing-field-initializers)
>  warning-1 += $(call cc-disable-warning, sign-compare)
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>

I was sad to see these go in the first place.
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers