Bug 928566 – x11-plugins/wmrecord-1.0.5.3-r2 fails to compile: wmrecord.c:383:17: error: passing argument 2 of snprintf makes integer from pointer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2024-04-04 06:48:53 UTC]

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2020/07/04/gentoo-tinderbox/

Issue: x11-plugins/wmrecord-1.0.5.3-r2 fails to compile.
Discovered on: x86 (internal ref: tinderbox_x86)
System: GCC-14-SYSTEM (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Tinderbox/Common_Issues_Helper#GCC-14)

Info about the issue:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Tinderbox/Common_Issues_Helper#CF0004

[Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo 2024-04-04 06:48:54 UTC]

Created attachment 889389 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info

[Comment 2 NHO 2024-05-11 11:14:18 UTC]

I dunno what's this program tries to do, my minimal test program segfaults. As it ought to, trying to take a pointer to address "3" as a format string and using string "000" as a size. Someone may be swapped order of operations?
But it's also wrong because string "000" is length 4, due to null terminator.

It's also for WindowMaker/AfterStep WMs and unlikely to work anywhere else, was written 20 years ago and is untouched since, with any upstream dead, and there's better audio recording software out there.
Let's just drop this.

[Comment 3 Bernard Cafarelli 2024-05-12 22:19:45 UTC]

Thanks for the analysis! I agree with the conclusion, let's last rite this one