Amarghosh

I posted a query on stack overflow with sample code, but did not get any response there. Can you confirm if this is expected behaviour, or is there a way to work around this? void f1(const char *s) { printf("f1"); } int main() { char *s = calloc(10, sizeof(char)); f1(s); // memleak is reported only if this is commented out return 0; } https://stackoverflow.com/q/78845892/165297 Is it just that cppcheck does not look in to how the called function is using the pointer, and rather relies on the data...

Thank you! That was really fast :)

In the following snippet, cppcheck does not report a memleak if the return value is explicitly compared against a value, as in the case of a2. But at the same time, if we just check if (getaddrinfo()) as in the case of a1, which is a widely used pattern to check if the function returned zero or not, it reports a false positive memleak. Invocation command was cppcheck --library=posix.cfg main.c, and the version was 2.14.2 struct addrinfo *a1 = NULL; if (getaddrinfo("a", "b", NULL, &a1)) { return -1;...