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Re: byteswap side-effect defect report from Coverity
From: |
Collin Funk |
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Re: byteswap side-effect defect report from Coverity |
Date: |
Mon, 20 May 2024 12:15:49 -0700 |
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Hi Paul,
On 5/20/24 9:13 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Gnulib does not support glibc 2.1.x and older, so this should not be a
> problem when porting to glibc. However, I worried that other platforms might
> have the bug, until I noticed that m4/byteswap.m4 already inadvertently tests
> for it. I installed the attached patch to document the test.
I was worried about other systems too. After you mentioned that macros
don't work on double arguments correctly I used it in byteswap.m4
since it seemed like a nice compile-time check. I probably should have
commented it though, thanks.
> We can ignore this Coverity defect report as a false positive, just as we
> ignore many other defect reports.
Interesting. I just learned what a Coverity scan is. Do I have to have
permission to view the defects?
Collin