Removing false positive warnings related to CVE-2021-42694 from the binutils code base

Hans-Peter Nilsson hp@bitrange.com
Thu Jun 12 02:42:50 GMT 2025


Not being a "binutils maintainer" in the elevated sense that I 
think you intend, I just offer my unsolicited opinion:

On Wed, 11 Jun 2025, Matthieu Longo wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> ... some tools warn
> whenever non-ASCII characters appear in a source file.

And for that reason I second getting rid of them.

(Fondly remembering how I tripped up "some tool" by a binary 
patch to glibc just a couple of years ago, foolishly thinking 
that the presence of binary files there indicated that adding 
one more was ok.)

brgds, H-P


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