memset bugs.

[Peter Jones]

On 11/30/2009 11:39 AM, Casey Dahlin wrote:
> On 11/30/2009 10:39 AM, Peter Jones wrote:
>> On 11/27/2009 02:25 PM, Casey Dahlin wrote:
>>> On 11/27/2009 06:03 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 03:28:19AM -0500, Gregory Maxwell
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> A literal zero prior to preprocessing is either a bug, or
>>>>> some kind of dead- code causing place-holder.
>>>> 
>>>> Not necessarily .. the C code itself may be generated from 
>>>> something else.
>>>> 
>>>> Rich.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> In which case the C code is no longer "source" and should be
>>> excluded from the analysis.
>> 
>> No, when swig (or whatever) produces bad code, we still want the
>> compiler to identify it and toss it.  It's then up to the packager
>> to realize it's swig producing the bad code, but it isn't magically
>> good code that doesn't result in real bugs.
>> 
> 
> The compiler isn't doing these checks, but point taken.

Go read Jakub's reply again ;)

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-November/msg01966.html

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