[GRASS-dev] Fwd: New Defects reported by Coverity Scan for grass

[Moskovitz, Bob@DOC]

I was wondering what that mean, so I looked it up and found this:  https://communities.coverity.com/thread/2303  

-Bob

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From: grass-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:grass-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Martin Landa
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2014 11:07 AM
To: Vaclav Petras
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Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] Fwd: New Defects reported by Coverity Scan for grass

2014-10-20 20:02 GMT+02:00 Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com>:
> num_of_rings = *nrings;
>
> I'm not sure what "tainted scalar" means but isn't this just hiding the
> issue, so that the checking tool cannot find it?

AFAIU, the problem is dynamically computed value in loop condition. It
could be anything, so it's "tainted". Does anyone knows about better
solution? Martin

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Martin Landa * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Landa
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