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

2014-10-20 20:02 GMT+02:00 Vaclav Petras <wenzesl...@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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