Re: An confusing Coverity issue in regcomp.c

2022-03-25 Thread Darren Kenny
Thanks Bruno for confirming - certainly was confusing :) Thanks, Darren. On Thursday, 2022-03-24 at 20:34:45 +01, Bruno Haible wrote: > 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 fin

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

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