Am 19. Juni 2025 um 20:23 schrieb "Bruno Haible": > Hi, > > Markus Mützel wrote: > > Building Octave with the CodeQL analyzer on GitHub gives the following > > alert in > > a header from gnulib: > > > > Returning stack-allocated memory > > > > libgnu/gettext.h:254 > > May return stack-allocated memory from msg_ctxt_id. > > It's a false alarm. Already answered in [1] and [2]. > > Bruno > > [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2023-07/msg00003.html > [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2023-11/msg00148.html
Thank you for the quick reply and for these pointers. Just to clarify: You were writing that dcgettext will return either the second argument, or a string that has indefinite extent. If I understand correctly, the second argument runs out of scope when the function returns. Is that true? Markus
