More weird compiler warnings

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2022-03-26T20:23:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
serinus' experimental gcc whines about a few places in network.c:

../../../../../pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/network.c: In function 'inetnot':
../../../../../pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/network.c:1893:34: warning: writing 1 byte into a region of size 0 [-Wstringop-overflow=]
 1893 |                         pdst[nb] = ~pip[nb];
      |                         ~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~
../../../../../pgsql/src/include/utils/inet.h:27:23: note: at offset -1 into destination object 'ipaddr' of size 16
   27 |         unsigned char ipaddr[16];       /* up to 128 bits of address */
      |                       ^~~~~~
../../../../../pgsql/src/include/utils/inet.h:27:23: note: at offset -1 into destination object 'ipaddr' of size 16

The code in question looks like

    {
        int            nb = ip_addrsize(ip);
        unsigned char *pip = ip_addr(ip);
        unsigned char *pdst = ip_addr(dst);

        while (nb-- > 0)
            pdst[nb] = ~pip[nb];
    }

There's nothing actually wrong with this, but I'm wondering if
we could silence the warning by changing the loop condition to

        while (--nb >= 0)

which seems like it might be marginally more readable anyway.

			regards, tom lane



Commits

  1. Work around spurious compiler warning in inet operators