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@tamird tamird commented May 28, 2025

This simply removes all instances of the bizarre pattern *& which
takes a pointer and immediately dereferences it. This pattern seems to
be adversarial to HWASAN.

Fixes #57.

This simply removes all instances of the bizarre pattern `*&` which
takes a pointer and immediately dereferences it. This pattern seems to
be adversarial to HWASAN.

Fixes xiph#57.
@tamird tamird force-pushed the avoid-useless-pointers branch from ae958d2 to 68030a5 Compare May 28, 2025 14:28
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tamird commented May 28, 2025

@rillian could you have a look? apologies for the ping, seems some PRs (e.g. #42) take 2 months to get eyes :(

@rillian rillian merged commit 68030a5 into xiph:main Jun 11, 2025
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*&foo=bar pattern appears to result in false positives under hwasan
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