diff --git a/example/ssh2.c b/example/ssh2.c
index 0a77b326..ad03f3f1 100644
--- a/example/ssh2.c
+++ b/example/ssh2.c
@@ -199,8 +199,10 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
             char const *h = getenv("HOME");
             if(!h || !*h)
                 h = ".";
-            fn1sz = strlen(h) + strlen(pubkey) + 2;
-            fn2sz = strlen(h) + strlen(privkey) + 2;
+            /* Silence GCC -Wformat-truncation false positives by allocating
+               2 extra bytes for each buffer. */
+            fn1sz = strlen(h) + strlen(pubkey) + 2 + 2;
+            fn2sz = strlen(h) + strlen(privkey) + 2 + 2;
             fn1 = malloc(fn1sz);
             fn2 = malloc(fn2sz);
             if(!fn1 || !fn2) {
@@ -210,18 +212,10 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
                 goto shutdown;
             }
             /* Avoid false positives */
-#if defined(__GNUC__) && __GNUC__ >= 7
-#pragma GCC diagnostic push
-#pragma GCC diagnostic warning "-Wformat-truncation=1"
-#endif
             /* Using asprintf() here would be much cleaner,
                but less portable */
             snprintf(fn1, fn1sz, "%s/%s", h, pubkey);
             snprintf(fn2, fn2sz, "%s/%s", h, privkey);
-#if defined(__GNUC__) && __GNUC__ >= 7
-#pragma GCC diagnostic pop
-#endif
-
             if(libssh2_userauth_publickey_fromfile(session, username,
                                                    fn1, fn2,
                                                    password)) {