Re: An confusing Coverity issue in regcomp.c

2022-03-24 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Darren, I appreciate that you are, like Paul and me, looking into the Coverity findings. You need to be aware that about 90% of the Coverity findings are - either irrelevant (for example, complaints about passing negative file descriptors to system calls in the test suite), - or false

Re: adapting relocatable-prog to non-recursive make

2022-03-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
Does the patch I mentioned earlier make sense?

An confusing Coverity issue in regcomp.c

2022-03-24 Thread Darren Kenny
Hi, As mentioned in another e-mail, I'm working on GRUB which makes use of a built-in version of the gnulib code to enable it to function. While running Coverity on this code, I'm seeing the following error where Coverity believes that the return value from re_compile_internal() may contain a v

Issue building gnulib with clang (as used in GRUB)

2022-03-24 Thread Darren Kenny
Hi, I'm working on some issues in GRUB, which some of you may know requires a subset of gnulib to be built in to it. I'm seeing a failure due to the use of variable length arrays when building with clang, versions 11 and 13, which I'm not seeing when building with GCC. The error that I amd see