Re: (ITS#8896) scale() uninitialized j

Thursday, 9 August 2018

ethanms(a)gmail.com wrote:
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 Full_Name: Ethan Schorer
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 In libraries/liblutil/utils.c in the function scale() the code defines "int i,
 j;".

 Then, i gets set in a for loop, but j only gets set if prev->len > 1. 
Wrong. j gets set if prev->len >= 1.

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 And then, j is used even if it wasn't initialized. Isn't this
a bug? 
No.

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 Shouldn't j be set to 0 when defined? Or don't use it?

There is no bug here. Closing this ITS.

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