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valgrind warning in add_row_entry

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 9990 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9990: valgrind warning in add_row_entry
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 22:34:30 +0000

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

> valgrind ./temacs -Q gets this warning:
>
> ==7487== Use of uninitialised value of size 8
> ==7487==    at 0x4140F4: update_window (dispnew.c:4212)
> ==7487==    by 0x414F32: update_window_tree (dispnew.c:3326)
> ==7487==    by 0x414F0E: update_window_tree (dispnew.c:3324)
> ==7487==    by 0x4181FD: update_frame (dispnew.c:3253)
> ==7487==    by 0x443EDB: redisplay_internal (xdisp.c:13175)
> ==7487==    by 0x4F6F47: read_char (keyboard.c:2443)
> ==7487==    by 0x4F9406: read_key_sequence.constprop.14 (keyboard.c:9290)
> ==7487==    by 0x4FB0D4: command_loop_1 (keyboard.c:1447)
> ==7487==    by 0x560015: internal_condition_case (eval.c:1499)
> ==7487==    by 0x4EE4AD: command_loop_2 (keyboard.c:1158)
> ==7487==    by 0x55FEF7: internal_catch (eval.c:1256)
> ==7487==    by 0x4EFA36: recursive_edit_1 (keyboard.c:1137)
> ==7487==
> ==7487==
> ==7487== ---- Attach to debugger ? --- [Return/N/n/Y/y/C/c] ---- Y
>
> The line in question is:
>
> 4212      entry = row_table[i];
>
>
> (gdb) p i
> $1 = 0x157
> (gdb) p row_table[i]
> $2 = (struct row_entry *) 0x0
> (gdb) p row_table_size
> $3 = 0x193
>
> Is it possible for the contents of row_table to be uninitialized?  Is this warning a false positive?

This is a report with a number of valgrind warnings from 9 years ago.
In this discussion, a number of warnings were fixed but then work
unfortunately seems to have stopped.

Is anyone still working on this or should this be closed?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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