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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