[Rd] GCC warning

[Simon Urbanek]

Adrian,

newer compilers are better at finding bugs - you may want to read the full trace of the error, it tells you that you likely have a memory overflow when using strncpy() in your package. You should check whether it is right. Unfortunately we can’t help you more specifically, because I don't see any link to what you submitted so can’t look at the code involved.

Cheers,
Simon



> On May 22, 2020, at 7:25 PM, Adrian Dușa <dusa.adrian using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am trying to submit a package on CRAN, and everything passes ok on all platforms but Debian, where CRAN responds with an automatic "significant" warning:
> 
> * checking whether package ‘QCA’ can be installed ... [35s/35s] WARNING
> Found the following significant warnings:
>  /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/string_fortified.h:106:10: warning: ‘__builtin_strncpy’ output may be truncated copying 12 bytes from a string of length 79 [-Wstringop-truncation]
> See ‘/srv/hornik/tmp/CRAN/QCA.Rcheck/00install.out’ for details.
> 
> 
> I know the cause of this: using a cursomized version of some external C library, coupled with <SystemRequirements: GNU make> in the Description.
> 
> But I do not know hot to get past this warning, since it refers to a builtin GCC function strncpy. As far as I read, this should be solved by a simple GCC upgrade to the newest version, but that is something outside my code base, since GCC resides on the CRAN servers.
> 
> In the meantime, to get the package published, did anyone encountered a similar problem? If so, is there a workaround?
> 
> —
> Adrian Dusa
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