pgmspace library string functions causing core panic

[stickbreaker]

Hardware:

Board: WeMos WiFi&Bluetooth Battery
Core Installation/update date: 05/OCT/2017
IDE name: Arduino IDE 1.8.5
Flash Frequency: 80Mhz
Upload Speed: 921600

Description:

pgmspace.h is wrong.

strncpy(dest,source,0x7fffffff) is not equivalent to strcpy(dest,source).

strncpy(dest,source,0x7fffffff) correctly copies source to destination, but it then NULL fills then next 2 billion bytes. (kinda hard on app, to have it's data NULL'd!).

Sketch:

#include <pgmspace.h>

#define eol "<br>\r\n"
const char ENVPRINT[] PROGMEM={
	"Environment Variables:"eol
	"********************"eol
	"<!--#printenv -->"
	"********************"eol};
	
void setup(){
Serial.begin(115200);
Serial.println("hello");

char buffer[500];
Serial.print(" should work, Arduino AVR coded -> ");
Serial.println(FPSTR(ENVPRINT)); // how Arduino AVR expects
Serial.print("\n should work because ESP32 is not Harvard ->");
Serial.println(ENVPRINT); // how ESP32 can work

strcpy(buffer,ENVPRINT);
Serial.print(" Program Mem copied into buffer, buffer=");
Serial.println(buffer);

Serial.println(" the pgmspace.h defines strcpy_P(dest,src) as strncpy(dest,src,0x7FFFFFFF).\n Which copies the src string to the destination, then continues to overwrite the next 2 billion bytes of memory with NULL");
Serial.println(" This of course causes 'bad things' to happen");

strcpy_P(buffer,ENVPRINT);

Serial.println(buffer);
Serial.print(" Never Arrives!!!");
}

void loop(){}

Debug Messages:

************ captured Output
hello
 should work, Arduino AVR coded -> Environment Variables:<br>
********************<br>
<!--#printenv -->********************<br>


 should work because ESP32 is not Harvard ->Environment Variables:<br>
********************<br>
<!--#printenv -->********************<br>

 Program Mem copied into buffer, buffer=Environment Variables:<br>
********************<br>
<!--#printenv -->********************<br>

 the pgmspace.h defines strcpy_P(dest,src) as strncpy(dest,src,0x7FFFFFFF).
 Which copies the src string to the destination, then continues to overwrite the next 2 billion bytes of memory with NULL
 This of course causes 'bad things' to happen
ets Jun 8 2016 00:22:57

rst:0x7 (TG0WDT_SYS_RESET),boot:0x13 (SPI_FAST_FLASH_BOOT)
configsip: 0, SPIWP:0xee
clk_drv:0x00,q_drv:0x00,d_drv:0x00,cs0_drv:0x00,hd_drv:0x00,wp_drv:0x00
mode:DIO,
************ captured Output

[stickbreaker]

I created a Fork and modified pgmspace.h, and create a Pull request 'I think?'
#707

Chuck.

[me-no-dev]

Merged :)