On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:56 PM, Ivan Vučica <i...@vucica.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:23 PM, Fred Kiefer <fredkie...@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>>  In the meantime my connection with GNUstep has been confirmed and I was 
>> able to look at the found issues. Many of them are false positives mostly 
>> caused by Coverity expecting normal program continuation after NSException 
>> raise.
>
> Some of this type of issues can be fixed with __attribute__ ((noreturn)).
>
> Manual says "The attribute noreturn is not implemented in GCC versions
> earlier than 2.5." which is older than what we support, so it should
> be fine.
>
> Even though it's just silencing this warning, I'm nonetheless creating
> a patch for gdomap.

Please disregard the mention of creating a patch for gdomap.c.

I've taken a closer look only a few seconds after posting this and it
looks like gdomap_log exits only sometimes, so the 'breaks are
missing' warning is probably correct.

I won't be creating the patch adding noreturn.

>> Even so it did detect a few potential issues in base. I flagged some of the 
>> false positives so the more interesting bits are left over for somebody to 
>> look at. Especially the „time of check, time of use“ issues should be looked 
>> at.
>>
>> Fred
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