On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 17:38:15 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Several uses of strlcpy and strscpy have had defects because the > last argument of each function is misused or typoed. > > Add macro mechanisms to avoid this defect. > > stracpy (copy a string to a string array) must have a string > array as the first argument (to) and uses sizeof(to) as the > size. > > These mechanisms verify that the to argument is an array of > char or other compatible types like u8 or unsigned char. > > A BUILD_BUG is emitted when the type of to is not compatible. > It would be nice to include some conversions. To demonstrate the need, to test the code, etc.
