On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 13:32:50 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote: > On 31.05.2016 13:10, Peter Krempa wrote: > > On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 13:05:16 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote: > >> On 31.05.2016 12:52, Peter Krempa wrote: > >>> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 12:33:26 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote: > >>>> As unlikely as it might seem, func passed to this function can > >>>> return NULL. And in some cases it indeed does so: > >>>> virDomainDefGetVcpuSched and virDomainDefGetIOThreadSched. > >>>> However, the function I'm fixing blindly dereference value func > >>>> returned thus leading to SIGSEGV. > >>> > >>> Same as in the coverity case complaining about this it won't happen here > >>> since we are iterating a known list of items that was collected > >>> beforehand and thus no crashing will happen. > >>> > >> > >> Well, having covery reports a false positive is one thing, being unable > >> to compile is another one. This is what I was afraid of and expressed it > >> here: > >> > >> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-May/msg02063.html > >> > >> On the other hand, you use more recent compiler than I do, so you'll hit > >> these error sooner O:-) IOW, one day we will have to deal with this. Again. > > > > I'm thinking of disabling that warning at all since it's making us work > > it around in cases where it clearly doesn't make sense. It's very > > similar to the warning of comparison between signed and unsigned. > > > > Is it? What about the following code: Yes. > > char *c = NULL; > > *c = 'a'; How about: int a = -1; size_t i; for (i = 0; i < a; i++) do_stuff(i); > Should you get a warning here or not? I would like to see a warning. But Same question. Similar source of bugs. And we've disabled it! It's a prefernce until it creates more trouble than gain. Hence we've disabled the -Wsign-compare flag.
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