Re: [Rd] GCC warning

[Adrian Dușa]

On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 10:01 AM Prof Brian Ripley 
wrote:

> On 23/05/2020 07:38, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> > 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.
>
> NB: debian-gcc on CRAN does have the latest version of gcc (10.1) and
> the link would likely have given fuller details (such links are provided
> on CRAN report pages but I do not know for submissions).
>
> gcc does sometimes give false alarms here (there is one for R with gcc
>  >= 9 and another for gcc >= 10) but see
>
> https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/05/24/detecting-string-truncation-with-gcc-8/
> .  Most can easily be workaround by cleaner code.
>

Oh, of course, apologies for the oversight, these are the links:

"package QCA_3.8.tar.gz does not pass the incoming checks automatically,
please see the following pre-tests:
Windows: <
https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/QCA_3.8_20200521_185504/Windows/00check.log
>
Status: 1 NOTE
Debian: <
https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/QCA_3.8_20200521_185504/Debian/00check.log
>
Status: 1 WARNING, 1 NOTE"

I only now realised the most relevant link was down below, after "last
released version's CRAN status" (where I mistakenly stopped reading
further):

"More details are given in the directory:
"

This is indeed very informative, and points to specific parts of the code
that seem to be responsible with the warning.
Thank you both very much for the pointers, I now at least know what should
I try to fix.

Best wishes,
Adrian

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University of Bucharest
Romanian Social Data Archive
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Re: [Rd] GCC warning

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 23/05/2020 07:38, Simon Urbanek wrote:

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.


NB: debian-gcc on CRAN does have the latest version of gcc (10.1) and 
the link would likely have given fuller details (such links are provided 
on CRAN report pages but I do not know for submissions).


gcc does sometimes give false alarms here (there is one for R with gcc 
>= 9 and another for gcc >= 10) but see 
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/05/24/detecting-string-truncation-with-gcc-8/ 
.  Most can easily be workaround by cleaner code.




Cheers,
Simon




On May 22, 2020, at 7:25 PM, Adrian Dușa  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  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
University of Bucharest
Romanian Social Data Archive
Soseaua Panduri nr. 90-92
050663 Bucharest sector 5
Romania
https://adriandusa.eu



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Re: [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  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  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
> University of Bucharest
> Romanian Social Data Archive
> Soseaua Panduri nr. 90-92
> 050663 Bucharest sector 5
> Romania
> https://adriandusa.eu
> 
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