Bug Summary

File:src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/obj/gdb/conftest.c
Warning:line 7, column 1
Argument to free() is the address of the global variable '_etext', which is not memory allocated by malloc()

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clang -cc1 -cc1 -triple amd64-unknown-openbsd7.0 -analyze -disable-free -disable-llvm-verifier -discard-value-names -main-file-name conftest.c -analyzer-store=region -analyzer-opt-analyze-nested-blocks -analyzer-checker=core -analyzer-checker=apiModeling -analyzer-checker=unix -analyzer-checker=deadcode -analyzer-checker=security.insecureAPI.UncheckedReturn -analyzer-checker=security.insecureAPI.getpw -analyzer-checker=security.insecureAPI.gets -analyzer-checker=security.insecureAPI.mktemp -analyzer-checker=security.insecureAPI.mkstemp -analyzer-checker=security.insecureAPI.vfork -analyzer-checker=nullability.NullPassedToNonnull -analyzer-checker=nullability.NullReturnedFromNonnull -analyzer-output plist -w -setup-static-analyzer -mrelocation-model pic -pic-level 1 -pic-is-pie -mframe-pointer=all -relaxed-aliasing -fno-rounding-math -mconstructor-aliases -munwind-tables -target-cpu x86-64 -target-feature +retpoline-indirect-calls -target-feature +retpoline-indirect-branches -tune-cpu generic -debugger-tuning=gdb -fcoverage-compilation-dir=/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/obj/gdb -resource-dir /usr/local/lib/clang/13.0.0 -D PIE_DEFAULT=1 -internal-isystem /usr/local/lib/clang/13.0.0/include -internal-externc-isystem /usr/include -O2 -fdebug-compilation-dir=/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/obj/gdb -ferror-limit 19 -fwrapv -D_RET_PROTECTOR -ret-protector -fgnuc-version=4.2.1 -vectorize-loops -vectorize-slp -fno-builtin-malloc -fno-builtin-calloc -fno-builtin-realloc -fno-builtin-valloc -fno-builtin-free -fno-builtin-strdup -fno-builtin-strndup -analyzer-output=html -faddrsig -D__GCC_HAVE_DWARF2_CFI_ASM=1 -o /home/ben/Projects/vmm/scan-build/2022-01-12-194120-40624-1 -x c conftest.c
1#line 3388 "configure"
2#include "confdefs.h"
3#include <stdlib.h>
4extern char _etext;
5
6int main() {
7free (&_etext);
Argument to free() is the address of the global variable '_etext', which is not memory allocated by malloc()
8; return 0; }