[Bug analyzer/105900] New: RFE: -fanalyzer could check malloc sizes when casting the result to a pointer

[dmalcolm at gcc dot gnu.org via Gcc-bugs]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105900

            Bug ID: 105900
           Summary: RFE: -fanalyzer could check malloc sizes when casting
                    the result to a pointer
           Product: gcc
           Version: 12.0
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: analyzer
          Assignee: dmalcolm at gcc dot gnu.org
          Reporter: dmalcolm at gcc dot gnu.org
            Blocks: 105887
  Target Milestone: ---

See:
  https://clang.llvm.org/docs/analyzer/checkers.html#unix-mallocsizeof-c

Tim Lange has expressed an interest in implementing this as part of GSoC 2022.


Referenced Bugs:

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105887
[Bug 105887] RFE: clang analyzer warnings that GCC's -fanalyzer could implement