Compile warning OpenBSD 3.7

[pjot]

Installed OpenBSD 3.7 and compiled the latest newLisp package (8.5.10). They have moved to GCC 3.3.5:

peter@starcrater:~/programming/newlisp-8.5.10$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 (propolice)
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
peter@starcrater:~/programming/newlisp-8.5.10$ make bsd
make -f makefile_bsd
gcc -Wall -Wno-uninitialized -O2 -c -g -DNANOSLEEP -DREADLINE -D_BSD newlisp.c
gcc -Wall -Wno-uninitialized -O2 -c -g -DNANOSLEEP -DREADLINE -D_BSD nl-symbol.c
gcc -Wall -Wno-uninitialized -O2 -c -g -DNANOSLEEP -DREADLINE -D_BSD nl-math.c
gcc -Wall -Wno-uninitialized -O2 -c -g -DNANOSLEEP -DREADLINE -D_BSD nl-list.c
gcc -Wall -Wno-uninitialized -O2 -c -g -DNANOSLEEP -DREADLINE -D_BSD nl-liststr.c
gcc -Wall -Wno-uninitialized -O2 -c -g -DNANOSLEEP -DREADLINE -D_BSD nl-string.c
gcc -Wall -Wno-uninitialized -O2 -c -g -DNANOSLEEP -DREADLINE -D_BSD nl-filesys.c
gcc -Wall -Wno-uninitialized -O2 -c -g -DNANOSLEEP -DREADLINE -D_BSD nl-sock.c
gcc -Wall -Wno-uninitialized -O2 -c -g -DNANOSLEEP -DREADLINE -D_BSD nl-import.c
gcc -Wall -Wno-uninitialized -O2 -c -g -DNANOSLEEP -DREADLINE -D_BSD nl-xml.c
gcc -Wall -Wno-uninitialized -O2 -c -g -DNANOSLEEP -DREADLINE -D_BSD nl-web.c
gcc -Wall -Wno-uninitialized -O2 -c -g -DNANOSLEEP -DREADLINE -D_BSD nl-matrix.c
gcc -Wall -Wno-uninitialized -O2 -c -g -DNANOSLEEP -DREADLINE -D_BSD nl-debug.c
gcc -Wall -Wno-uninitialized -O2 -c -g -DNANOSLEEP -DREADLINE -D_BSD pcre.c
gcc newlisp.o nl-symbol.o nl-math.o nl-list.o nl-liststr.o nl-string.o nl-filesys.o nl-sock.o nl-import.o nl-xml.o nl-web.o nl-matrix.o nl-debug.o pcre.o -g -lm -lreadline -lncurses -o newlisp
newlisp.o(.text+0xf05): In function `initialize':
/home/peter/programming/newlisp-8.5.10/newlisp.c:910: warning: sprintf() is often misused, please use snprintf()
strip newlisp

NewLisp compiles and runs all right, the tests pass, but GCC produces a new warning: the C-function 'sprintf' appears to be unsafe. I also suffer from this problem with my GTK-server.

I thought I'ld let you know.

Peter

[Lutz]

I am aware of these warninngs in OpenBSD and have verified, that all usages of sprintf(), strcat() and strcpy() are safe against buffer overflow the way they are used in few places newLISP, in each case the number of bytes copied is under control.

Lutz