GNU bug report logs - #9983
valgrind warning in draw_glyphs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> gnu.org>

Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 04:40:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #31 received at 9983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: dann <at> gnu.org, 9983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9983: valgrind warning in draw_glyphs
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:57:04 +0200

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> gnu.org>,  9983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:21:38 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > The other variables in the line being flagged, `start' and `i', are
> > also okay: `start' is one of the call arguments
> 
> Just being an argument does not necessarily make it ok.

Indeed.  I also thought about that, so I checked the callers two
levels up, and came up empty-handed.

I guess the optimization done by GCC 4.6 fooled valgrind as well.
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