Re: m68k: main.c:(.init.text+0x730): undefined reference to`strlen'

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Wed May 14 2008 - 10:58:29 EST


[Andreas Schwab - Wed, May 14, 2008 at 04:55:37PM +0200]
| Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
|
| > I think it would help to see ..tmp_vmlinux1.cmd to ensure for inclusion
| > of lib/lib.a. strlen was there without my patch as Andreas already pointed,
| > I've just added strncat wich is coming from lib/string.o for this arch.
|
| Actually the way strncat is used here is broken anyway, it does not
| prevent array overrun. The third argument of strncat only limits the
| amount of characters copied, without taking into account the length of
| the string already in the buffer. Consequently gcc has optimized the
| call to strncat into a simple call to strcat, since none of the copied
| strings are longer than sizeof(msgbuf). This strcat call is then
| expanded to include a call to strlen.
|
| So a better fix would probably be to make msgbuf big enough and use
| strcat instead.
|
| Andreas.
|
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Thanks Andreas, I'll fix it.

- Cyrill -
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