https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83007
Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:
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--- Comment #3 from Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Martin Sebor from comment #1)
> A common mistake with strncat is to specify as the bound the source of the
> source string (instead of the remaining space in the destination), as in:
That doesn't really make sense to me. If you know the remaining space in the
destination, that would mean also you know the length of the string in the
destination; then you should just use the known location of the '\0' as the
spot to memcpy + termination.
target.c uses strncat for a completely different purpose, which better matches
what the function does - sometimes it wants to copy the whole src string, but
sometimes just a portion of it and that is what is specified by the third
strncat argument.
